This study describes the biological activity of the dried leaves, stem and rhizomes of Curcuma zedoaria belonging to the family Zingiberaceae. The dried powders of the plant were extracted with organic solventsmethanol and pet ether sequentially by the maceration process. The crude extract of methanol and pet ether were then investigated for analgesic and antimicrobial activity. At an oral dose...

different species of artemisia (asteraceae) have shown to exhibit antitumor activity. the aim of this study was to identify the antiproliferative effect of artemisia aucheri boiss (a.aucheri) from iran on cultured human cancer cells. aerial parts of artemisia aucheri boiss. were collected from chahar bagh region (2150 m altitude, sep. 2011),golestan province, iran.the dried powdered aerial part...

In the present investigation, aqueous, ethanol and petroleum ether, ethanol (1:1) root extracts of Seidenfia rheedii were tested against 12 different human pathogenic bacteria for antibacterial activity. It was found that ethanolic extracts inhibited the growth of all the bacterial strains tested whereas moderate antibacterial activity was associated with petroleum ether, ethanol (1:1) root ext...

Andrographis alata Nees is an important medicinal plant. The current study was to investigate the antibacterial, antifungal activity and phytochemical analysis of the various leaf and stem extracts of A.alata. Methanol, ethanol, chloroform, acetone and petroleum ether extracts of shade dried plant leaf and stem of A.alata were tested for antibacterial, antifungal and phytochemical screening. Th...

Objective. To evaluate the effect of petroleum ether extracts of Curcuma zedoaria on the proliferation of human triple negative breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-231. Methods. The reagents were isolated from Curcuma zedoaria by petroleum ether fraction. It was assayed by CCK8 for MDA-MB-231 cellular viability with various concentrations and days, cell cycle analyses, Western Blot analysis, and Rea...

Artocarpus altilis (breadfruit) leaf extracts in different solvent media (petroleum ether, methanol and ethyl acetate) were examined for the antimicrobial activity against some pathogenic bacterial species like Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Streptococcus mutans and Enterococcus faecalis following the MIC (minimal inhibitory concentrations). Steroids, phytosterols, gums and resi...

Plant material was collected from Western Ghats, India, shade-dried and extracted successively with different polarity solvents of petroleum ether and ethyl acetate. The extracts were tested for their antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and against a fungal species using the disc-diffusion method. The antimicrobial activity of extracts of Pongamia pinnata was...

The present study explores the hepatoprotective activity of various extracts of Ferula asafoetida, Momordica charantia Linn and Nardostachys jatamansi against experimental hepatotoxicity. Polyherbal suspensions were formulated using extracts showing significant activity and evaluated for both physicochemical and hepatoprotective activity in comparison with LIV-52 as standard. Petroleum ether (6...

The different extracts of Hedychium spicatum Buch.-Ham. (Zingiberaceae) were evaluated for antioxidant activity by 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging activity and reducing power determination method. Total phenol and total flavonoid content in each extracts were also determined. Gallic acid and ascorbic acid were used as reference standards. They exhibited strong antioxida...

the whole plant, pergularia daemia (family: asclepediaceae), was extracted with 50% alcohol and a fresh batch of the plant material was successively extracted with petroleum ether, ethyl acetate and n-butanol to determine its diuretic activity. the diuretic activity of the different extracts at a dose of 400 mg/kg was assessed orally in rats with furosemide as a standard drug using lipschitzs t...