Today, herb medicines have become the major source for discovery of novel agents in countermining diseases. However, many of them are largely under-explored in pharmacology due to the limitation of current experimental approaches. Therefore, we proposed a computational framework in this study for network understanding of herb pharmacology via rapid identification of putative ingredient-target i...

Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.), a herbal plant, belonging to the family Apiceae, is valued for its culinary and medicinal uses. All parts of this herb are in use as flavoring agent and/or as traditional remedies for the treatment of different disorders in the folk medicine systems of different civilizations. The plant is a potential source of lipids (rich in petroselinic acid) and an essenti...

Anticancer therapy is one of the biggest challenges in medicine. Therefore, searching for highly efficient antitumor drugs remains a hot area of research. Plants and plant-based products are gaining importance against variety of diseases due to their non-toxic and no / less side effects. Hence, we have been continuously working on the identification and characterization of medicinal plants (Kha...

A speech signal captured by a distant microphone is generally smeared by reverberation, that severely degrades both the speech intelligibility and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) performance. Previously, we proposed a novel dereverberation method, named “Harmonicity based dEReverBeration (HERB)”, which estimates the inverse filter of an unknown impulse response by utilizing the inherent spee...

Organically produced spices and herbs were analyzed for determination of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) by ELISA using immunoaffinity column. For this purpose 93 organic spices and 37 organic herbs were randomly selected from organic markets and organic shops in Turkey. AFB1 was detected in 58 organic spice and 32 organic herb samples. Among organic spice samples, the maximum value was detected in cinnamo...

Intoxications in pediatric age represent a frequent cause of visit to the hospital emergency unit. Herb-made products can be toxic for the infant. The neurotoxic properties of the star anise (Illicium verum) have been widely described, although it is a classic product used to treat the infantile colic. Hepatic failure due to the consumption of anise herb elaborated infusions is presented as an ...

Brass used in heat exchanger is corroded in industrial water. The used inhibitor is extracted from horse tail herb added in different concentrations and temperature to industrial water in which heat exchanger if exposed to these conditions. Brass is studied under the above conditions using potentiodynamic polarization, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction. Potentiodynamic po...

A speech signal captured by a distant microphone is generally smeared by reverberation, that severely degrades both the speech intelligibility and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) performance. Previously, we proposed a novel dereverberation method, named “Harmonicity based dEReverBeration (HERB)”, which estimates the inverse filter of an unknown impulse response by utilizing the inherent spee...

BACKGROUND In order to define the virulence factors between Chinese herb-resistant uropathogenic E. coli and susceptible strains, the UPEC isolates were classified into two groups according to its resistance to Chinese herbs. MATERIALS AND METHODS The susceptibility profile of strains was determined by disk diffusion method. PCR systems were used to detect genes encoding papC, Aer, hly and cn...

Now a day’s people use herb or herbal remedies along with their medication in long term treatment of various disease. Concomitant use of herb and drug can interact with each other may cause herb drug interaction. The present study was designed to investigate the possible herb drug interaction between Momordica Chrantia Fruit Juice (MCFJ) and metformin. Metformin was given orally in two differen...