Persian Gulf Bioactive Natural Drugs

Persian Gulf Bioactive Natural Drugs

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: It provides recent information regarding active marine natural products which can be utilized in pharmacy and medicine. Copyright © 2014, School of Pharmacy, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences; Published by DOCS. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,...

persian gulf bioactive natural drugs

Gracilariopsis persica from Persian Gulf Contains Bioactive Sterols

Gracilariopsis Persica (Rhodophyta) is one of the most abundant algae, introduced newly from the Indian Ocean. In this study, the main sterols of the algae have been isolated and identified. Separation and purification of the compounds was carried out on silica gel and sephadex LH20 column chromatography (CC) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to obtain five pure compounds 1-5. S...

Persian Gulf Puzzle

Arizona State University, which discovered the compound. The promise of these and other possible disease-fighting compounds beneath the ocean's surface emphasizes the importance of protecting biodiversity. Many environmental groups have turned their attention to oceans because human activities are harming the seas. Some of these activities include wetlands destruction, overfishing, discharge of...

New Persian Gulf possibilities.

Knotted proteins are more commonly observed in recent years due to the enormously growing number of structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Studies show that the knot regions contribute to both ligand binding and enzyme activity in proteins such as the chromophore-binding domain of phytochrome, ketol–acid reductoisomerase or SpoU methyltransferase. However, there are still many misidentified...