Essential oils (EOs), extracted from aromatic plants, are interesting natural products and represent an important part of the traditional pharmacopeia. The use of some EOs as alternative antimicrobial and pharmaceutical agents has attracted considerable interest recently. Most of the EOs and their single constituents have been reported to inhibit several phytopathogens, human pathogens, and ins...

Pharmaceutical terpenoids belong to the most diverse class of natural products. They have significant curative effects on a variety of diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, malaria and Alzheimer's disease. Nowadays, elicitors, including biotic and abiotic elicitors, are often used to activate the pathway of secondary metabolism and enhance the production of target terpenoids. Based...

The science and policy of pharmaceuticals produced and/or delivered by plants has evolved over the past twenty-one years from a backyard remedy to regulated, purified products. After seemingly frozen at Phase I human clinical trials with six orally delivered plant-made vaccines not progressing past this stage over seven years, plant-made pharmaceuticals have made a breakthrough with several pur...

Manufacturing Process R&D activities are one of the target areas of Irish industrial development agencies in their quest towards embedding pharmaceutical companies in Ireland. This paper analyses the changing role of Ireland in the global process R&D networks of the pharmaceutical companies. The paper is based on data collected in an email survey of all pharmaceutical establishments in Ireland ...

The study of the occurrence and fate of pharmaceutical compounds in drinking or waste water processes has become very popular in recent years. Liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry is a powerful analytical tool often used to determine pharmaceutical residues at trace level in water. However, many steps may disrupt the analytical procedure and bias the results. A list of 27 environ...

BACKGROUND Medicinal plants are possible sources for future novel antioxidant compounds in food and pharmaceutical formulations. Recent attention on medicinal plants emanates from their long historical utilisation in folk medicine as well as their prophylactic properties. However, there is a dearth of scientific data on the efficacy and stability of the bioactive chemical constituents in medici...

Plant medicine becomes more popular thought the world in these days probably of its latest toxicity. Ayurveda that leads in plant medicine preserves the natural form of herbs maximum, in various pharmaceutical preparations. Isolation of active principles has not proved much fruitful. However, the need of hour is cultivation of more medicinal plants along with popularization of their use traditi...

Mizoram inhabits a wide variety of medicinal plants which are traditionally used by the local tribes for the treatment of a range of ailments. The present study was initiated to screen the antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of Albizzia chinensis, Callicarpa arborea, Mussaenda macrophylla and Stereospermum tetragonum. Among the selected plants, A. chinensis possessed highest total Phenolic...

Ayurveda is an age old system of medicine which utilizes thousands medicinal plants, rich in secondary metabolites for their therapeutic benefits and phenolic compounds are important one. Plant one the major group phytomolecules having tremendous nutraceutical potential. Indian plants like Emblica, Terminalia spp., Withania, Tinospora etc. some potential source bioactive phenolics had been used...

Medicinal plants are consumed worldwide for the treatment of several diseases and are important raw materials for the production of photochemical by pharmaceutical industries. The medicinal plant is susceptible to wide ranges of pests and diseases, which causes economic crop loss as well as quality of herbal products and is often treated with chemical pesticides to manage these problems. The pr...