Garcinia cambogia (G.cambogia) is a herbal dietary supplement for managing obesity. Several adverse effects of G.cambogia have been reported including serotonin syndrome and mania. We report patient with refractory status epilepticus after taking G.cambogia. A 24-year-old woman was admitted continuing seizures. Based on electroencephalography neuroimaging findings, she diagnosed as attributed t...

Garcinia paucinervis is an evergreen tree with high medicinal value. Due to its vulnerable reproductive capacity coupled excessive logging by humans, G. has become endangered species. In order protect this species effectively, we drew the complete chloroplast genome of and performed a series comparative analyses on neighbouring The size 157702 bp. genome, identified 130 genes, 56 RNA editing si...

Flavonoids have been reported to have many pharmacological activities, antimicrobial, antioxidant, cytotoxic, chemoprevention activities along with strong antiproliferative effects. The fruits of Garcinia lancaefolia Roxb., family Cluseaceae , a plant endemic to Assam has been used in locally to treat many diseases for which it was selected for investigationg its antimicrobial properties. No sc...

This study was designed to determine the antiproliferative, apoptotic and antioxidative properties of crude methanolic extract (CME) from the pericarp of Garcinia mangostana (family Guttiferae) using human breast cancer (SKBR3) cell line as a model system. SKBR3 cells were cultured in the presence of CME at various concentrations (0-50 microg/ml) for 48 h and the percentage of cell viability wa...

Ultra-fine formulations edible dried fruit rind material provides a vast range of opportunities for the development new products and applications in food systems. The Garcinia indica cambogia, both species have uses from culinary to healthcare applications. was attempted study size proportion ultra-fine powder formed using Multi-function disintegrator as function different durations grinding. p...

AIM The efficacy of dietary inclusion of various parts of mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana L.) extract on growth and hematological parameters of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) fingerlings were investigated. MATERIAL AND METHODS Ninety six fingerlings were randomly distributed into each of ten 20L plastic aquaria. Each treatment groups consists of three replicates. Four experimental diets...