Annona senegalensis is one of the widely distributed plants used in folklore for the management of various ailments in Nigeria. The present study examined the phytochemical content and antimicrobial activity of the leaf nethanolic extract of this important plant. The phytochemica...
The effect of re-use of African breadfruit (Treculia africana) seed oil on the physicochemical and fatty acid profile of the oil was studied. Oil was extracted from Treculia Africana seeds and the oil was repeatedly used in frying sweet potatoes. The physi...
This research work aims to ascertain the composition and potency of the bioactive component of Volatile compounds derived from Aframomum melegueta stem extract through multi-phase solvent extraction Gas Chromatography /Mass spectrophotometric analysis and antimicrobial assay agai...
Vikas Jha, Bhakti Madaye, Farheen Khan, Fatimabi Shaikh, Siddhartha Pandya, Esha Gupta, Nikita Tendulkar, Kabir Thakur, Vrushali Dhamapurkar, Dhanshree Kulabkar & Bhakti Salekar·South Asian Research Journal of Natural Products·2022
Essential oils (EO) are intriguing natural compounds produced from aromatic plants, playing a significant role in the ancient pharmacopoeia. Recently, there has been a lot of interest in using several essential oils as alternative antibacterial and medicinal agents. One of such e...
Mango with the botanical name of Mangifera Indica (MI) (Linn.) is one of the traditionally used herb tree in the third world country used for different curative and prophylaxis measure for different health challenges. This article presents an updated information on its mathematic...
The effect of magnetic field dependent thermosolutal convection and MFD viscosity of the fluid dynamic are studied between two squeezing plates. The unsteady constitutive expression of mass conservation modified naiver-stocks, Maxwell and MFD thermosolutal convection are coupled...
In this research, I investigated an unsteady carbon nanotubes in a 2D mixed convection flow made of water on a porous in- clined expansible surface with angle in terms of the horizontal axis. When the magnetic field changes, the surface stretches linearly with velocity u.The Para...
Antioxidant and oxidative stress effects of prooxidants are generally dose-dependent, depending on the prooxidant species and cell type. However, the cellular response to oxidant challenge is a complicated interplay of events involving cellular expression of phase II detoxificati...
Catharanthus roseus has traditionally been used for relieving pain and inflammation. Few studies have been done to scientifically evaluate its analgesic and anti-pyretic activity. Hence our aim was to evaluate the analgesic and anti-pyretic activity of leaves of Catharanthus rose...
Handcrafted coconut, soybean and corn oils were analyzed for quality and cholesterol composition using standard methods. The observed moisture composition of the oils exceeded the 0.2% threshold for maintenance of quality shelf life. Corn oil displayed the highest degree of unsat...
Natural pigments are widely used in textiles, leather, food and other materials, due to they are non-toxic and easy to extract. In the present study, stability and antioxidant activity of a natural red pigment was investigated from Pseudomonas stutzeri ZH-1 which was first isolat...
Aim: Justicia carnea has been used in traditional medicine in Nigeria in the treatment and management of various diseases which include inflammation, cancer, malaria, sickle cell disease, gastrointestinal infections, anemia, HIV, diabetes, diarrhea, typhoid, liver diseases, hepat...
Clément L. Inkoto, Koto-Te-Nyiwa Ngbolua, Patrick E. Bokungu, Colette A. Masengo, Jeff B. Iteku, Dorothée D. Tshilanda, Damien S. T. Tshibangu & Pius T. Mpiana·South Asian Research Journal of Natural Products·2021
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 80% of the population in Africa in general and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in particular, resorts to Traditional Medicine to solve the problem of primary health care. In this study we had reviewed the r...
Background: This study investigated the biochemical effects of prolonged administration of monosodium glutamate (MSG) and soybeans in both male and female rats, using standard methods. Methods: A total of two hundred and ten (210) Wistar rats (70 – 78g) were divided equally into...
Background: Vatika prakaranaya is one of the most important indigenous medical pharmacopoeia named “Vatika prakaranaya hewath Beheth guli kalka potha”. It was written by Dr. Illeperuma Arachchige Don Sadiris De Alwis Illeperuma in 1879 which contained different kinds of tradition...