Gynura nepalensis D.C. (family: Asteraceae) has abundant uses in the alternative medicinal practice, and this species is commonly used in the treatment of diabetes, rheumatism, cuts or wounds, asthma, kidney stones, cough, urinary tract bleeding, gall bladder stones, hepatitis, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, constipation, vomiting, fertility problems, blood poisoning, septicemia, skin allergy, indigestion, high cholesterol levels, and so on.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPalm grass () is an ethnomedicinally important herb reported to have significant medicinal values. The present study aimed to evaluate the antidepressant and anxiolytic activities of a methanol extract of rhizome (Me-RCR) through different approaches. The antidepressant and anxiolytic properties of Me-RCR were assessed by using elevated plus maze (EPM), hole-board (HBT), tail suspension (TST), and forced swimming (FST) tests in Swiss Albino mice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBottom-up micropatterning or nanopatterning can be viewed as the localization of target molecules to the desired area of a surface. A majority of these processes rely on the physical adsorption of ink-like molecules to the paper-like surface, resulting in unstable immobilization of the target molecules owing to their noncovalent linkage to the surface. Herein, successive single nick-sealing facilitated the covalent immobilization of individual DNA molecules at defined positions on a dendron-coated silicon surface using atomic force microscopy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: () is an enthnomedicinally important herb reported to have significant medicinal values. The present study aimed to explore the in vivo and in silico anti-nociceptive and anti-diarrheal effects of a rhizome methanol extract (Me-RCR).
Methods: The analgesic effects of Me-RCR were assessed using acetic acid-induced writhing and the formalin-induced flicking test.
Background In the present study, we investigated the antibacterial, anthelmintic, and analgesic activities of methanol extract of P. sylvaticum leaves (MEPSL) in experimental models. Then, computational analysis (in silico molecular docking and PASS prediction) was performed to determine the potent phytoconstituents of total six isolated compounds of this plant for antibacterial and anthelmintic activities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present study was conducted to investigate the antinociceptive activity of methanol extract of (Met.MD) in an animal model, followed by molecular docking analysis. Antinociceptive activity was determined by acetic acid-induced writhing and formalin-induced licking test in mice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Complement Altern Med
November 2016
Background: Hopea Odorata, locally known as Telsur (Bangladesh), has some traditional uses as folk medicine. This study aims to investigate the antioxidant, antidiarrheal, hypoglycemic and thrombolytic activities of H. odorata leaf extracts as new therapeutic prospects predicting the activity of some of the isolated compounds of this plant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Basic Clin Physiol Pharmacol
November 2016
Background: This study aims to investigate whether tested organic extracts possess antithrombotic properties with minimal or no toxicity and to predict the activity of some of their isolated compounds.
Methods: An in vitro thrombolytic model was used to check the clot lysis effect of four Bangladeshi herbal extracts viz., roots of Curculigo recurvata W.