Functional foods have emerged as a new approach to improve human health in term of nutraceutical to prevent people from illness rather than cure patients though medical treatment. In Asian society, particularly in Thailand, the utilizations of functional ingredients have been integrated in every parts of ordinary life. In this study, the tyrosine kinase activity of epidermal growth factor recep...

Functional foods have emerged as a new approach to improve human health in term of nutraceutical to prevent people from illness rather than cure patients though medical treatment. In Asian society, particularly in Thailand, the utilizations of functional ingredients have been integrated in every parts of ordinary life. In this study, the tyrosine kinase activity of epidermal growth factor recep...

Among the most interesting questions in Thai politics today is how to account for the rise and (until recently) the success of Thaksin Shinawatra and his Thai Rak Thai party. This article describes and analyzes some of the factors that contributed to the rise and success of Thaksin and Thai Rak Thai, arguing that neither Thaksin’s personal assets nor the effects of the crisis are enough to expl...

Edible peanut seed represents approximately forty percent of the total mass of the peanut plant at harvest. This plant material is a potential source of nutraceutical compounds. Aqueous acetone was used to extract polar compounds from the leaves and roots of peanut plants, and from the shells of peanut seeds. The antioxidant activities of the extracts using ORAC were determined and compared. Th...

Plants produce a wide array of nutrients that exert synergistic interaction among whole combinations of nutrients. Therefore comprehensive nutrient profiling is required to evaluate their nutritional/nutraceutical value and health promoting effect. In order to obtain such datasets for mung bean, which is known as a medicinal plant with heat alleviating effect, proteomic and metabolomic analyses...

Alpha-1-C-hydroxymethylfagomine (7), 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-DMDP (12), and 2,5-dideoxy-2,5-imino-D-glucitol (13) were isolated from the Thai traditional crude drug "Non tai yak" (Stemona tuberosa), which also contains a high concentration level of alpha-homonojirimycin (0.1% dry weight). "Thopthaep" (Connarus ferrugineus) and "Cha em thai" (Albizia myriophylla) contained 1-deoxymannojirimyci...

background: traditional thai tobacco (nicotiana abacus l.) is known as a non-virginia type whose mature leaf contains three to four times more nicotine than that of a virginia type. as such, the process of thai traditional tobacco production may lead to adverse health effects such as green tobacco sickness (gts). objective: to investigate the prevalence of gts and risk factors related to gts am...

According to previous reports, flavonoids and nutraceuticals correct defective electrolyte transport in cystic fibrosis (CF) airways. Traditional medicinal plants from China and Thailand contain phytoflavonoids and other bioactive compounds. We examined herbal extracts of the common Thai medicinal euphorbiaceous plant Phyllanthus acidus for their potential effects on epithelial transport. Funct...

BACKGROUND In rural communities of Thailand, traditional healers still play an important role in local health care systems even though modern medicine is easily accessible. Meanwhile, natural forests in Thailand which are important sources of materia medica are being greatly destroyed. This has led to an erosion of traditional Thai medicine. Furthermore, the concept of medicinal plant selection...