Pakistan journal of pharmaceutical sciences
Nov 1, 2019
Medicinal plants are proven to reveal vast promising potential providing novel drug candidates to combat health-related problems. The aim of current study is to discover new drug compounds with anti-anticancer, antioxidant, antibacterial and antifung...
Metallomics : integrated biometal science
Mar 20, 2019
One potential source of new antibacterials is through probing existing chemical libraries for copper-dependent inhibitors (CDIs), i.e., molecules with antibiotic activity only in the presence of copper. Recently, our group demonstrated that previousl...
Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. C, Journal of biosciences
Dec 19, 2018
A strain of Bacillus methylotrophicus was isolated from a soil sample collected in Aswan eastern desert, which is known for its extremely arid climate. After fermentation of the strain in liquid culture and subsequent extraction, a bioassay-guided is...
MOTIVATION: Correct and rapid determination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) resistance against available tuberculosis (TB) drugs is essential for the control and management of TB. Conventional molecular diagnostic test assumes that the presence o...
International journal of medicinal mushrooms
Jan 1, 2018
Fomitopsis pinicola (Sw.) P. Karst. (Fomitopsidaceae) is a medicinal mushroom with a variety of healthy properties. In this study we tested the radical scavenging activity and antimicrobial and anticancer potential of methanol extracts of F. pinicola...
Revista peruana de medicina experimental y salud publica
Jan 1, 2018
OBJECTIVES.: To isolate, select and identify actinomyces associated to leaf-cutting ants Atta cephalotes (Linnaeus, 1758), that present a greater anti-Candida activity.
Current opinion in infectious diseases
Dec 1, 2017
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a threat to global health and new approaches to combating AMR are needed. Use of machine learning in addressing AMR is in its infancy but has made promising steps. We reviewed the current literatur...
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Oct 1, 2017
BACKGROUND: Multidrug resistance and recent technological advances have renewed interest in natural product drug discovery from ancient remedies such as Allium sativum (garlic) and honey. This study assessed antibacterial activity of aqueous garlic e...
This paper described the extraction procedure and determination method for the total flavonoids in ethanol extract from the leaves of Abutilon theophrasti Medic., and evaluated antibacterial and antioxidant activity. Maximum extraction yield was achi...