Aim: To screen Kenyan Grewia tenax root extract phytochemicals and correlate the attribute fertility enhancing effects and safety in female albino rats. Study Design: An experimental study design was used. Place and Duration of Study: The phytochemical studies were done at Jomo K...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2020/v31i730250
Aim: This study investigated the effect of curcumin, from Curcuma longa, on the invasion of U87 glioma cell line spheres in 3D collagen model. Furthermore, this study investigated the anti-migration effects of curcumin on the migration of the same cell line in scratch assay. Plac...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2020/v31i730249
Biosynthesized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are environment friendly, cost-effective, bio-compatible and expanding research area due to their potential applications in medical domain. The present study focuses on biologically synthesized of AgNPs using aqueous root extract of Ir...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2020/v31i730248
Breno Alves Rodrigues, Maryana Silva Zielinski, Lucas Eduardo Morais Brito, Daniella Inácio Barros, Helber Veras Nunes, Bruno Henrique Di Napoli Nunes, Hingrid Rodrigues Martins Aguiar, Evandro Alves Ribeiro, Paulo Victor Gomes Sales & Ricardo Alencar Libório·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2020
Java plum (Syzygium cumini) belonging to the botanical family Myrtaceae, which also includes species of other tropical fruits widely consumed in Brazil, such as guava (Psidium guajava L.) and surinam cherry (Eugenia uniflora L.). The production of quality seedlings depends on sev...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2020/v31i630247
Denise Bianchin Gomes, Barbara Zanchet, Patrícia Zanotelli Serpa, Gelvani Locateli, Daniela Miorando, Amanda Maria Steffler, Maria Eduarda de Costa Zanatta, Ana Júlia Predebon, Camila Sans Carteri, Junir Lutinski, Ana Lúcia Tasca Góis Ruiz, Maria de Fátima da Costa Santos, Andersson Barison & Walter Antônio Roman Junior·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2020
Natural products and especially medicinal plants, have been extensively studied and have exhibited antiproliferative effects. The species Eugenia uniflora L. (Myrtaceae) is native to Brazil and distributed throughout Australia, East Asia, and the Americas. The leaves are commonly...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2020/v31i630246
Conceição Eneida dos Santos Silveira, Cláudia Andrea Lima Cardoso, Dario Palhares, Íris Almeida dos Santos & Alfredo Luiz Rodrigues Pereira·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2020
Brosimum gaudichaudii is a common plant of Cerrado, which is of pharmaceutical interest owing to the high accumulation of furanocoumarins in the bark of the roots. The production chain is based on extractivism, which exerts a considerable ecological pressure. In this paper, a tec...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2020/v31i630245
Adsorption of Malachite Green (MG) on activated carbon obtained from Teak wood biomass has been investigated by batch adsorption method. The percentage removal of dye has been optimized by studying the initial concentration of the dye, adsorbent dosage, adsorption time and pH. Th...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2020/v31i630244
Igor Eduardo Martins Borges, Indira Rayane Pires Cardeal, Jennifer Monique Martins de Abreu, Daniella Inácio Barros, Helber Veras Nunes, Bruno Henrique Di Napoli Nunes, Evandro Alves Ribeiro, Juliana Lopes dos Santos & Liomar Borges De Oliveira·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2020
The use of substrates is a good option and should present some important characteristics, such as availability of acquisition and transportation, absence of pathogens, richness in essential nutrients, suitable pH, texture and structure. However, each species exhibits different be...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2020/v31i630243
Abdulrashid Mohammed, Muhammad Ibrahim Usman, Alhassan Muhammad Wudil, Adamu Jibrin Alhassan, Salisu Maiwada Abubakar & Ngwen Anthony Lat·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2020
Many plants possess antioxidants that exhibit additive or synergistic activities. The antioxidant activities of the root of Curcuma longa Linn extracts extracted different solvents were investigated by using several established in vitro systems: α,α-diphenyl-β-picrylhydrazyl (DPP...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2020/v31i630241
This analysis aims at evaluating the effects of Cocoa extract on Pneumonia. Pneumonia is caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Caffeine, Chorogenic acid, Ferulic acid, Iso- Orientin, luteolin, Naringenin and Vanillic acid of Cocoa were interacted with ribitol-5-phosphate 2-dehydrog...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2020/v31i630240