Aloe vera has been used worldwide both for pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic industries due to the plethora of biological activities of some of its metabolites. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antifungal and antioxidant activities of the leaf extract. The antifungal activity was determined by the agar-well diffusion method against plant and human fungal pathogens. The methanol and et...

The fingerprint profiles of methanol extract and ethyl acetate sub fraction of Azadirachta indica leaves were conducted using preliminary phytochemical screening and high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) analysis. Preliminary phytochemical screening was performed using various biochemical tests. Alkaloid, flavonoid, tannin, saponin and phenol were present in both the extract/subfra...

The current study was carried out to test the root hair extract of Carex baccans, a traditionally used medicinal plant by the natives (Jaintia tribes) of Northeast India, for its anthelmintic efficacy on the trematode Artyfechinostomum sufrartyfex. The test parasites were exposed to different concentrations of the root hair extract of the plant and praziquantel, a broad-spectrum anthelmintic at...

Margaritaria discoidea is a medicinal plant used for the treatment of various body pains in Central, Eastern and Southern Africa. The aqueous extract of its stem bark was investigated for its anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities in animal models. The extract at 50, 100 and 200mg/kg body weight reduced significantly the formation of oedema induced by carrageenan and histamine. In the aceti...

This study was carried out to assess the antimicrobial activities of Sphenocentrum jollyanum and Mangifera indica extract on Salmonella typhi. The antimicrobial activities of these plant extract <50% ethanol was tested against Salmonella typhi mostly belongs to pathogenic bacteria, by agar well diffusion method. The crude extracts showed a broad extract spectrum of an antibacterial activity inh...

The basic objective of this work was to identify and estimate the active constituents present in the herb Coldenia procumbens Linn. A survey of literature showed that the plant has not been exploited properly and remains a silent drug in herbal medicine. In this work, the coumestan derivative wedelolactone was identified in the methanolic extract of the plant by TLC. The concentration of wedelo...

OBJECTIVE It was to assess the main characteristics of patients undergoing pituitary tumor surgery. METHOD Eighty-seven patients (44 men; 44.8±13 years old) were included. RESULTS The main symptoms were visual alterations (87.3%), headache (70.1%), diminished libido (34.4%), galactorrhea (22.9%) and hair loss (19.5%). The axes affected were gonadotropic (72.6%), thyrotropic (48.4%) and cort...

Velvetbean (Mucuna spp.) is a summer annual that has been used as a cover crop to reduce erosion, fix nitrogen and suppress weeds and plant-parasitic nematodes. Crude aqueous extracts (1:15 dry weight plant/volume water) were made from velvetbean plant parts, and various concentrations of the extracts were evaluated in vitro for toxicities to different stages of Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid an...

Many endophytes have beneficial effects on plants and can be exploited in biotechnological applications. Studies hypothesize that only 0.001-1% of all plant-associated bacteria are cultivable. Moreover, even after successful isolations, many endophytic bacteria often show reduced regrowth capacity. This research aimed to optimize isolation processes and culturing these bacteria afterwards. We c...