The aim of the study was to isolate digestive enzymes inhibitors from through a bioassay-guided fractionation approach. Repeated silica gel and sephadex LH 20 column chromatographies of bioactive fractions afforded stigmasterol, quercetin and avicul...
Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis
Dec 27, 2017
Alpinetin, a bioactive flavonoid, has attracted great attention due to its diverse therapeutic effects, namely anti-oxidant, anti-tumor and anti-inflammatory effects with low systemic toxicity. Various determination methods have been developed in qua...
The aim of this study was to characterize the extracts and fractions of Persea americana Mill. (Avocado) seeds and to determine the composition and the in vitro anthelmintic activity against third-stage larvae (L3) of Haemonchus contortus. The fresh ...
Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie
Dec 27, 2017
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the physical and psychosocial wellbeing of the patients and a major cause of work disability. Current drugs for its treatment only provide palliative effect, as cure for the dis...
Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association
Dec 27, 2017
Ficus exasperata Vahl, commonly known as sandpaper, is a terrestrial Afro-tropical tree used in popular medicine. Despite the existence of some works on the biological activities of this species, its chemical composition is still poorly known. The ai...
Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie
Dec 27, 2017
Previous studies demonstrated that peanut testa extracts (KK4 and ICG15042) containing natural histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors inhibited the growth of several human cancer cell lines via apoptosis induction. The aims of this study were to inves...
Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Dec 26, 2017
BACKGROUND & AIMS: We have previously reported an increased nitrosative stress in the kidneys of diabetic animals, which was reduced by an antioxidant probiotic. The present study evaluated whether the extract of cupuaçu (EC), an antioxidant compound...
Journal of environmental science and health. Part. B, Pesticides, food contaminants, and agricultural wastes
Dec 26, 2017
Ficus burtt-davyi (Moraceae) is a medicinal plant species indigenous to Southern Africa. In this study, a phytochemical and cytotoxic investigation on F. burtt-davyi was conducted to evaluate its ethno-medicinal use. The phytochemical study of the fr...
Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association
Dec 26, 2017
Chemical composition and antioxidative, genotoxic and cytotoxic potential of essential oil (EO) and post-distillation waste (PDW) of Serbian Juniperus communis L. var. saxatilis Pall. was studied in human lung carcinoma (A549) and normal lung fibrobl...
A phytochemical and antibacterial study of , a species endemic to Mexico, was performed allowing the isolation of six flavones. The minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of the hexanic extract, against H37Rv was 25 μg/mL. The hexanic extract cause...