Preliminary study on the antibacterial activity of some medicinal plants of Khuzestan (Iran)

detection of volatile compounds of medicinal plants with some nano-sorbents using modified or new methodologies and investigation of antioxidant activity of their methanolic extracts

in this work, a novel and fast method for direct analysis of volatile compounds (davc) of medicinal plants has been developed by holding a filament from different parts of a plant in the gc injection port. the extraction and analysis of volatile components of a small amount of plant were carried out in one-step without any sample preparation. after optimization of temperature, extraction time a...

Antibacterial activity of some selected medicinal plants of Pakistan

BACKGROUND Screening of the ethnobotenical plants is a pre-requisite to evaluate their therapeutic potential and it can lead to the isolation of new bioactive compounds. METHODS The crude extracts and fractions of six medicinal important plants (Arisaema flavum, Debregeasia salicifolia, Carissa opaca, Pistacia integerrima, Aesculus indica, and Toona ciliata) were tested against three Gram pos...

Antibacterial Activity of Some Folklore Medicinal Plants Used by Bakhtiari Tribal in Southwest Iran

Antibacterial Activity of Some Selected Indian Medicinal Plants

There is a continuous and urgent need to discover new antimicrobial compounds with diverse chemical structures and novel mechanisms of action because there has been an alarming increase in the incidence of new and reemerging infectious diseases. In recent years, drug resistance to human pathogenic bacteria has been commonly reported from all over the world. In the present scenario of emergence ...

Screening of Some Medicinal Plants for Antibacterial Activity against Conjunctivitis

Antibiotic resistance is a persistently emerging problem all over the world. The constituents of therapeutic plant extracts play a key role in antimicrobial drug discovery. Extracts of 36 medicinal plant species of Pakistan origin that belong to 33 genera and 24 families were tested against the bacterial strains Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In addition the extracts of 23 pl...