The antimycotic potential of Datura metel (syn. Datura alba Nees.) was investigated in vitro against Ascochyta rabiei, the cause of chickpea blight disease. The pathogen was exposed to various n-hexane concentrations (1, 2, 3 and 4% w/v) of shoot and root extracts of D. metel using poisoning food technique. All the employed concentrations of both root and shoot extracts significantly suppressed...

The side effects associated with the usage of synthetic antidiabetic drugs make it imperative to search for alternative drugs from medicinal plants. Therefore, this study was aimed at evaluating the α-amylase and α-glucosidase inhibitory potential of Calotropis procera leaf, as well as its possible mode of inhibiting these enzymes. Acetone, aqueous and ethanolic extracts of C. procera leaf was ...

Zahra SHAKERAN, Mehrnaz KEYHANFAR*, Gholamreza ASGHARI, Mustafa GHANADIAN Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Isfahan Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical ...

In the early morning hours of July 9, 2008, six adult family members were admitted to a hospital emergency department in Maryland with hallucinations, confusion, mydriasis, and tachycardia of approximately 3-4 hours duration. Approximately 4-5 hours earlier, all six family members had shared a meal of homemade stew and bread. Subsequent investigation by the Montgomery County Department of Healt...

Medicinal plants are valuable and used for the synthesis of numerous drugs. Indigenous plants are traditionally used against various ailments. Present work is based on the research conducted on methanolic crude plant extracts of three medicinal plants of family solanaceae i.e. leaves of Datura inoxia Mill., Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal and Solanum surrattense were screened to investigate the b...

Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T.Aiton presents high levels of medicinally important terpenes and phenolics with antiinflammatory, antimicrobial, antioxidant properties. The present study aimed to develop a suitable platform for mass production pharmacological metabolites improvement activity C. procera. Motivated by such aim, potential effects Fe3O4 nanoparticles (Fe3O4 NPs) salicylic acid (SA) ...

Poisoning of a young adolescent caused by the intake of extracts prepared from the plant Datura stramonium is presented. It is a broadleaf annual erect herb with spine covered seed capsule. Its toxic alkaloids, atropine and scopolamine, cause a series of characteristic classic symptoms of anticholinergic poisoning. Children are mostly exposed to the poisoning by the plant species from the genus...