bacterial vaginosis (bv) has been considered to be the most prevalent infection found in sexually active women. bv is thought to play an important role in the premature rupture of membranes (prom) and preterm birth. preterm delivery accounts for a substantial percentage of low birth weight infants and perinatal mortality and morbidity. bacteroides and prevotella species have been isolated from ...

Etlingera elatior, Persicaria odorata, Centella asiatica, Senna alata and Phyllanthus emblica were reviewed for their in vitro anti-collagenase activity its total phenolic contents. Plant herbs play a vital role to promote the production of collagen which is component skin. Different solvents during plant extraction various parts used determine properties content. Generally, assay Folin-Ciocalt...

In this study, the inhibitory effects of extracts prepared from oleaster seeds on antioxidant activity, anti-urease and anti-collagenase enzyme activities, which have an important area in health, were investigated. For purpose, aqueous methanolic these enzymes analyzed by spectrophotometric measurements. The effect was evaluated vitro method. Only extract found to show both activity. It determi...

Collagenase activity was measured by direct assay in skins from 12 patients afflicted with systemic sclerosis. In seven of those cases where extensive involvement of the forearm and trunk skin existed, collagenase activity of the involved skin was minimal or absent. Moreover, in the same patient, regions of marked skin involvement (e.g., forearm) showed no collagenase activity, when clinically ...

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) has been considered to be the most prevalent infection found in sexually active women. BV is thought to play an important role in the premature rupture of membranes (PROM) and preterm birth. Preterm delivery accounts for a substantial percentage of low birth weight infants and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Bacteroides and Prevotella species have been isolated f...

An aqueous extract of human placenta exhibits strong gelatinase/collagenase activity in zymography. 2-D gel electrophoresis of the extract with gelatin zymography in the second dimension displayed a single spot, identified as ubiquitin-like component upon MALDI/TOF MS/MS analysis. Immunoblot indicated presence of ubiquitin and absence of collagenase in the extract. Collagenase activity of the u...

This study was conducted to compare the correlations between free radical antioxidant activity and anti-wrinkling activity. Areca nut extracted using various concentrations of ethanol (0, 40, 80, 100%) methanol at 100 °C for 90 min. The ethanolic methanolic extracts were evaluated total phenolic content (TPC), flavonoid (TFC), activity, including capacity (TAC), FRAP, DPPH, ABTS, superoxide ani...

A distinctive isolate was discovered and visually recognized as a member of the genus Didymella during routine examination Coelomycetes isolated from diverse fruit juices. Based on sequencing internal transcribed spacer (ITS), fungus identified keratinophila since it showed 100% identity to type strain. The strain thrived produced keratinase collagenase enzymes by hydrolyzing native chicken fea...

The level of phosphodiesterase (PDE) activity is lower in collagenase-isolated human fat cells than in adipose tissue fragments. The inhibition is not species-specific since collagenase also inhibits PDE in rat adipose tissue and bovine heart. In subcellular fractions from isolated fat cells, the PDE activities were lowest in the plasma membrane-enriched fractions and highest in the cytosolic f...

The heterogeneity of human collagenases has been examined using a monoclonal antibody to neutrophil collagenase. This antibody inhibited collagenase activity and, when covalently coupled to Sepharose, bound both latent and active enzyme. Although human neutrophil collagenase was inhibited by the antibody, the activity of human skin and rheumatoid synovial collagenase was not significantly dimin...