Address for Correspondence: Dr. Prabhakar Patil, Navodaya Medical College, Raichur, Karnataka, India. Mobile No. +919900346851. E-Mail: [email protected] Access this Article online Quick Response code Web site: 1,*3,4,5 Navodaya Medical College Raichur, Karnataka, India. 2 R.C. Patel College of Pharmacy, Shirpur, Dhule, Maharashtra, India. The objective of present study was to investigate...

Background. Nowadays, herbs they are considered to be the main source of effective drugs for lowering serum lipids and lipid peroxidation. The present experimental animal study aimed to assess the impact of Ferulago angulata on serum lipid profiles, and on levels of lipid peroxidation. Methods. Fifty male Wistar rats, weighing 250-300 g, were randomly divided into five equal groups (ten rats in...

OBJECTIVES Urtica dioica L. has been known as a medicinal plant in the world. This study was conducted to determine the effects of the hydroalcoholic extract of Urtica dioica leaves on seminiferous tubules of diabetic rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Animals were allocated to control, diabetic and protective groups. Treated animals received extract of U. dioica (100 mg/ kg/ day) IP for the first 5...

ocimum basilicum belongs to lamiaceae family and has been used for the treatment of wide range of diseases in traditional medicine in iranian folk medicine. due to the progressive need to anti-anxiety medications and because of the similarity between o. basilicum and salvia officinalis , which has anti-anxiety effects, we decided to investigate the anxiolytic and sedative activity of hydroalcoh...

hydroalcoholic extract of pycnocycla spinosa has spasmolytic effect in vitro and antidiarrhoeal action in vivo . the aim of this research was to separate fractions of total hydroalcoholic extract of p. spinosa guided by their spasmolytic activity. aerial parts of p. spinosa were extracted with ethanol. the concentrated extract was subjected to column chromatography and thin layer chromatography...

Cisplatin (CP) as an important anti-tumor drug causes nephrotoxicity mainly by oxidative stress and renin-angiotensin system (RAS). Since flavonoids have high antioxidant activity and probable role in the inhibition of RAS, this study was designed to investigate the protective effect of hydroalcoholic extract and flavonoid fraction of Morus alba leaves on cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity in rat...

Alocasia macrorrhizos (AM) belongs to the family Araceae, different parts of this plant have shown hepatoprotective, anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory action. Though it is traditionally used as a diuretic it needs substantial experimental evidence to support this. Hence we aimed to evaluate the diuretic activity of hydroalcoholic extract of leaves of AM in wistar rats. Acute diuretic activity ...

BACKGROUND E. coccinae (SIMS) G. (Asteraceae) is an annual plant commonly found throughout the plain of the Central Africa and widely used in Cameroonian folk medicine for the treatment of fever and convulsions in children. We previously reported that the methanolic extract of this plant improved spatial memory. However no underlying mechanism was explored. The present study was undertaken to i...

BACKGROUND One of the major problems of the aged women or older than 35 is getting pregnant in the late fertility life. Fertility rates begin to decline gradually at the age of 30, more so at 35, and markedly at 40. Even with fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization, women have more difficulty in getting pregnant or may deliver abnormal fetus. The purpose of this study was to assess ...

Pycnocycla caespitosa is an essential oil-containing plant naturally growing in southwest of Iran. The extract of this plant has been used as remedy in traditional medicine. Another species of Pycnocyla (P. spinosa) possessed antispasmodic activity. The pharmacological objective of this study was to look for relaxant effect of hydroalcoholic extract and essential oil of P. caespitosa on rat iso...