It is not sufficiently appreciated that methly alcohol is very toxic. For econoi' reasons, methyl (wood) alcohol is employed as a substitute for tbyl (grain) alcohol, in what may be termed comparatively innocent products, such as perfumes, hair tonics, skin lotions, , '/ polishes, varnishes, etc. Government analysts, not infrequently, find it employed in the manufacture of various extracts for ...

An alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) gene from Clostridium acetobutylicum was cloned on a recombinant plasmid, pCADH100. Escherichia coli HB101, and an allyl alcohol-resistant mutant, HB101-adh1, containing this plasmid were unable to grow aerobically or anaerobically on agar media containing sublethal concentrations of allyl alcohol. E. coli HB101 and HB101-adh1 transformed with the plasmid pCADH100...

The objective of this research was to study the pharmacology of Dioscorea bulbifera L. on antioxidant and anticancer activity. Alcohol extracts of Dioscorea bulbifera L. were made out by different concentration alcohol; they were tested by Hydroxyl radical scavenging test, reducing capacity test and total antioxidant capacity test. In the anticancer test, MTT test was used to study the inhibiti...

The nematicidal effect of different extracts of Acacia nilotica leaves/seeds and Gymnema sylvestre leaves were tested against Meloidogyne incognita larvae at the concentrations of 1, 0.5, 0.25 and 0.125%, up to three days. All extracts showed nematicidal mortality. Nematicidal mortality was 100% with the use of 1% concentration of leaves ethyl alcohol extract of G. sylvestre and ethyl acetate l...

Extracts prepared from the turgid and water-stressed leaves of wild-type tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill cv Ailsa Craig) and the wilty mutants sitiens, notabilis, and flacca were tested for their ability to metabolize xanthoxin to ABA. Extracts from wild type and notabilis converted xanthoxin at similar rates, while extracts from sitiens and flacca showed little or no activity. We also obs...

Anticancer potential of Piper longum fruit against human cancer cell lines (DU-145 prostate, A549 lung, THP-1 leukemia, IGR-OVI-1 ovary and MCF-7 breast) as well as its in vitro and in vivo biochemical efficacy in A1Cl3-induced hepatotoxicity were evaluated in the rats. Dried samples were extracted with several solvents using soxhlet apparatus. Flavonoid content in chloroform, benzene, ethyl al...

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...

To study physico-chemical, phytochemical and high performance thin layer chromatography of a Siddha drug “Kadukkai Legiyam” (KL). The prepared Kadukkai Legiyam (KL) was as per the standard operating procedures mentioned in literature. Then subjected to physicochemical parameters, screening, chromatographic photo documentation (TLC), (HPTLC) finger print profile hexane, chloroform, ethanol hydro...

The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of beverages containing fermented Akebia quinata extracts on alcoholic hangover. For this study, 25 healthy young men were recruited. All participants consumed 100 mL of water (placebo), commercial hangover beverage A or B, fermented A. quinata leaf (AQL) or fruit (AQF) extract before alcohol consumption. After 1 h, all participants con...

Symplocos racemosa Roxb bark belongs to the family: Symplocaceae. In Ayurveda it is known as Lodhra. The bark was collected and dried for four days under sun and powdered. It was extracted with different solvents ethanol, methanol and ethyl acetate by soxhlet hot extraction process. Preliminary phytochemical analysis was carried out for different extracts. It was found that saponin glycosides a...