African Journal of Plant Science - 5 (12-15), 2011

African Journal of Plant Science - 5 (12), 2011



Contents:

Research Articles



I. A. Teli, N. A. Gworgwor, S. D. Joshua and E. O. Imoloame

Economic assessment of some pre-emergence herbicides in the production of millet-cowpea intercrop in the Sudan Savanna Zone of Nigeria

    
Prohp T. P. and Onoagbe I. O.

Anti–diabetic studies of aqueous extract of Triplochiton scleroxylon on platelets and associated parameters in alloxan-induced diabetic rabbits


E. Obeng-Bio, M. Bonsu, K. Obeng-Antwi and R. Akromah

Establishing the basis for drought tolerance in maize (zea mays L.) using some secondary traits in the field

     
Nassir, Adesola L. and Adewusi, Kayode M.

Drought response of some tropical rice genotypes: Rooting, vegetative traits and grain production

     
Agbaje G. O, Aluko O. A and Olasoji J. O

Effect of plant spacing on seed yield and yield components in kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus) variety, Ifeken 400

      
Focho Derek Afa, Eneke Bechem, Egbe Andrew, Fongod Augustina Genla, Fonge Beatrice Ambo and Njoh Roland Ndah

Effects of organic and inorganic fertilizers on early growth characteristics of Khaya ivorensis Chev (African mahogany) in nursery

       
Cliff S. Dlamini and Coert J. Geldenhuys

Quantities and values of selected forest medicines harvested by eight villages adjacent to natural woodlands in the four ecological zones of rural Swaziland

     
B. Y. Abubakar, S. MuA’zu, A. U. Khan and A. K. Adamu

Morpho-anatomical variation in some accessions of Moringa oleifera Lam. from Northern Nigeria

    
Leili Motamedi-Mirhosseini, Ghasem Mohammadi-Nejad, Alireza Bahraminejad, Pooran Golkar and Zahra Mohammadinejad

Evaluation of cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.) landraces under drought stress based on some agronomic traits

       
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African Journal of Plant Science - 5 (13), 2011



Contents:


Research Articles


Etta Hannah Edim, Ijakeyi Blessing and Udo Sammuel

Comparative studies on consumption preference, mineral contents and proximate composition of five ecotypes of Gnetum aficanum Welw. from Northwest Cameroun and Southeast Nigeria

     
Ebiamadon Andi Brisibe, Ogbu Udensi, Valentine O. Ntui, Peggy A. Otu and Peter N. Chukwurah

Sensitivity of some quantitative and yield characters of ‘Egusi’ melon (Colocynthis citrullus L.) to treatment with microtubule inhibitors

      
Rubén Alfonso Saucedo-Teran, Jose Luis Javier Badillo-Almaraz, Hector Rubio-Arias and Pedro Jurado-Guerra

Establishment of high-elevation fourwing saltbush (Atriplex canescens Pursh Nutt.) ecotypes in Northern Mexico´s oak-bunchgrass rangelands

       
Idun I. A., Kumah P. and Adzraku H. V.

Rooting and vegetative growth responses of “difficult-to-root” Ixora coccinea and Ficus benjamina cv. ‘starlight’ to different stem cutting types and soilless media

     
Jean Lagarde BETTI, Salomon Janvier BELINGA and Dagobert SAMBA

Stock of Prunus africana stems on the mount Cameroon forest

       
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African Journal of Plant Science - 5 (14), 2011



Contents:

Review

 
Ebrahim Babaahmady and Afra Khosravi

Toxicology of baytril (enrofloxacin)

      
Research Articles

 
Kamel Ben Mbarek, Mohsen Boubaker and Tijani Mehoichi

Early tests on tolerant kabuli chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes selection for drought stress

     
D. Y. Giroh, Y. Waizah, F. S. Yustus and P. Imarhiagbe

Cost analysis of on-farm adaptive research (OFAR) as a strategy for Hevea technology transfer in the rubber belt of Nigeria


Krishnareddy P. V., Karuppusamy S.and Pullaiah T.
       
In vitro propagation of Ceropegia juncea Roxb

   
Leili Motamedi-Mirhosseini, Ghasem Mohammadi-Nejad, Alireza Bahraminejad, Pooran Golka and Zahra Mohammadinejad

Evaluation of cumin (Cuminum Cyminum L.) landraces under drought stress based on some agronomic traits

       
E. Obeng-Bio, M. Bonsu, K. Obeng-Antwi and R. Akromah

Green house assessment of drought tolerance in maize (Zea mays L.) using some plant parameters

     
Sara Siahpoush, Navazollah Sahebani and Heshmatollah Aminian

                    Change of some defense compounds of cucumber treated with                      Bacillus cereus and salicylic acid against Meloidogyne javanica

      
Adesoye, A. I. and Nnadi, N. C.

        Mitotic chromosome studies of some accessions of African yam bean Sphenostylis stenocarpa (Hochst. Ex. A. Rich.) Harm.

     
P. Sinha and C. Chatterjee

Assessment of disturbances caused by interaction of multinutrient deficiencies of sulphur, zinc and boron in mustard


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African Journal of Plant Science - 5 (15), 2011



Contents:


Review


S. K. Rautaray

Innovations in resource management for sustainable rice based farming

 
Research Articles

 
Ashinie Bogale and Kindie Tesfaye

Response of Ethiopian durum wheat genotypes to water deficit induced at various growth stages

     
Rahimeh Kurdistani, Enayatollah Tohidinejad,Ghasem Mohammadi-Nejad and Sepideh Zareie

Yield potential evaluation and path analysis of different sesame genotypes under various levels of iron

       
Chandan Kumar Pati and Aloke Bhattacharjee

 Sunflower seed invigoration by chemical manipulation

       
Owolade O. F., Olasoji J. O. and Afolabi C. G.

Effect of storage temperature and packaging materials on seed germination and seed-borne fungi of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench.) in South West Nigeria

     
Motshwari Obopile, Ronald B. Hammond and Pierce A. Paul

Interaction between maize phenology and transgenic maize hybrids on stalk rots following European corn borer infestation

     
Md. Nazrul Islam Bhuiyan, Jaripa Begum and Nemai Chandra Nandi

  Volatile constituents of essential oils isolated from different parts of                     Alpinia calcarata Rosc

  
Syed Muhammad Akmal Rahim, Shahida Hasnain and Jabeen Farkhanda

Effect of calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium on farm plantations of various agroeclogical zones of Punjab, Pakistan.

A. Barekye, P. Tongoona, J. Derera, M. D. Laing and W. K. Tushemereirwe

Appraisal of methods for assessing black Sigatoka resistance in diploid banana populations

    
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African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 5 (23-25), 2011

African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 5 (23), 2011



Contents:


Case Report

 
Muhammad Atif, Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman, Asrul Akmal Shafie, Irfhan Ali, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Fahad Saleem and Mukhtar Muftah Solliman

        Addressing tuberculosis management in context of default and side effects associated with anti tuberculosis drugs: A case report from Malaysia

      
Research Articles

 
M. S. Rofiee, Z. A. Zakaria, M. N. Somchit, A. Zuraini, A. K. Arifah, L. K. Teh, M. Z. Salleh and K. Long

        Involvement of CYP450 system in hepatoprotective activity of Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI)-produced virgin coconut oils

       
Alireza Seidavi

        Classification and biochemical biodiversity of twenty silkworm varieties based on total cholesterol, triglycerides, high densit lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, total lipase and lipids

       
Angeni Bheekie, Kenechukwu Obikeze, Rafik Bapoo and Naushaad Ebrahim

        Service learning in pharmacy: Opportunities for student learning and service delivery

     
Qichun Zhang, Zhilei Qian, Linmei Pan, Huan Li and Huaxu Zhu

        The traditional Chinese medicine Huang-Lian-Jie-Du-Tang inhibits hypoxia - induced neuronal apoptosis

       
Abbas Khan, Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Imran Khan, Jamshaid Ali Khan, Muhammad Khalid Javed and Zia Ahmad

        Drug-drug interaction between ciprofloxacin and diclofenac ophthalmic drops at ocular level

       
Yong-gang Liu, Peng TAN, Fei LI and Yan-jiang QIAO

        Study on the reaction products of hypaconitine in methanol and water using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

       
Babak Khalili Hadad and Majid Monajjemi

        Coupled Cyclo hexa peptide nano ring system drug carriers; study the stability and electrical field
       

Lu Yin, Wang Yan-hua and Wu Shao-hua

        Use of progesterone in treatment of early pregnancy for threatened abortion: A potential cause for infantile hemangioma in newborns  

      
Onesimo D. Ribeiro Jr, Luiz Carlos de Abreu, Vitor E. Valenti, José Raul Cisternas, Deise Saletti, Carla J. B. Lima, Diego N. Silvestre, Ivan R. B. Godoy, Luiz G. M. Mello, Vania B. Nascimento and Lourdes C. Martins

        Comparison between S-ketamine and clonidine in caudal analgesia 

      
Harshit R. Shah, A. Arivarasan, Pravir Kumar and Rashmi K. Ambasta

        Protective effects of transplanted bone marrow mononuclearcells (BMMNCs) in organ damage caused due tostreptozotocin (STZ) induced diabetes 

        
C. Awortwe, A. C. Sackeyfio, Dorcas Osei-Safo, K. A. Bugyei and I. J. Asiedu-Gyekye

        Dual effect of Taraxacum officinale leaves: Anticholinergic and inhibitory effect on inflammatory cells in ovalbumin-sensitized guinea-pigs 

       
Asgary Sedigheh, Moshtaghian Seyyed Jamal, Setorki Mahbubeh, Kazemi Somayeh, Rafieian-kopaei Mahmoud, Adelnia Azadeh and Shamsi Fatemeh

        Hypoglycaemic and hypolipidemic effects of pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) on alloxan-induced diabetic rats 

      
Munir Anwar, Mansoor Ahmad, Mehjabeen, Noor Jahan, Omair A. Mohiuddin and Mahmood Qureshi

        Phytopharmacological assessment of medicinal properties of Psoralea corylifolia 

       
Short Communication

 
Rahmat Ali Khan, Muhammad Rashid Khan, Sumaira Sahreen, Nasir Ali Shah, Jasia Bokhari, Maria Shabbir, Umbreen Rashid and Shumila Jan

        Protective effects of Launaea procumbens against KBrO3-induced hepatic serum marker enzymes 

        

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African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 5 (24), 2011



Contents:


Research Articles

 
Shahin Gavanji, Mohammad Javad Asgari, Ramin Vaezi and Behrouz Larki

        Antifungal effect of the extract of propolis on the growth of three species of Epidermophyton flucosum, Trichophyton violaseum and Trichophyton tonsorans in laboratory environment

       
Wei Lin, Liangpu Zheng, Jinyan Zhao, Qunchuan Zhuang, Zhenfeng Hong, Wei Xu, Youqin Chen, Thomas J. Sferra and Jun Peng

        Anti-angiogenic effect of Spica prunellae extract in vivo and in vitro

       
Parivash Rahimi, Najmeh Kabiri, Sedigheh Asgary and Mahbubeh Setorki

        Anti-diabetic effects of walnut oil on alloxan-induced diabetic rats

      
Ali Rezaie, Ehsan Sepehrizadeh, Samad Rezaie, Gafor Mosavi and Mehrdad Nazeri

        Clinical and histopathologic impacts of indomethacin on healing of experimental gum injuries on rabbits

       
J. D. Habila, F. O. Shode,  G. I. Ndukwe, J. O. Amupitan and A. J. Nok

        Novel antimalarial agent (Cinnamic 3ß-hydroxyolean-12-en-28-carboxylic anhydride): Synthesis, characterization and in vivo studies

     
M. F. Mohd Fazrullah Innsan, M. Hairul Shahril, M. S. Samihah, O. Siti Asma, S. Mat Radzi, A. K. Abd Jalil and M. N. Hanina

        Pharmacodynamic properties of essential oils from Cymbopogon species


Yan-Jun Xue, Xiao-Hong Han, De-yu Chen, He Huang, Xian-Qian Li and Shi-He Shao

        Effects of recombinant MAP30 on cell proliferation and apoptosis of human esophageal carcinoma EC-1.71 cells
       

Xiaomin Zhang, Tangde Zhang, Bing Wang, Nina Tang, Ledong Sun and Quan Luo

        Preparation and characterization of human malignant melanoma ganglioside ScFv antibody conjugated quantum dot probe  

      
Naveed Ullah, Mir Azam Khan, Haider Ali, Nouman Altaf, Shakoor Ahmad, Ghayour Ahmed and Minhaj ud Din

        Importance of white flowered Mirabilis jalapa with respect to its phytochemical and antimicrobial screening 


Rebamang A. Mosa, Adebola O. Oyedeji, Francis O. Shode, Mogie Singh and Andy R. Opoku

        Triterpenes from the stem bark of Protorhus longifolia exhibit anti-platelet aggregation activity

        
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African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 5 (25), 2011



Contents:


   SECOND ANNUAL REVIEW ISSUE

           
             Barkat Ali Khan, Naveed Akhtar, Haji Muhammad Shoaib Khan, Khalid Waseem, Tariq Mahmood, Akhtar Rasul, Muhammad Iqbal and Haroon Khan

                    Basics of pharmaceutical emulsions: A review

       
             Ghulam Murtaza, Amir Waseem, Nisar-ur-Rehman and Izhar Hussain

                    Alginate microparticles for biodelivery: A review 

      
             Yuvaraj D. Mandavkar and Sunil S. Jalalpure

                    A comprehensive review on Plumbago zeylanica Linn  

    
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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (26-30), 2011

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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (26), 2011


Contents:

Review



Sun Yan-Lin, Liu Lin-De and Hong Soon-Kwan

Eleutherococcus senticosus as a crude medicine: Review of biotechnological effects


A. Maroyi and L. J. G. van der Maesen

Gloriosa superba L. (family Colchicaceae): Remedy or poison?


Muhammad Akram, Naveed Akhtar, H. M. Asif, Pervaiz Akhtar Shah, Tariq Saeed, Arshad Mahmood and Nadia Shamshad Malik

Treatment of premenstrual syndrome



Research Articles



Mohd Fahami Nur Azlina, Yusof Kamisah, Reeny FA Rahman and Othman Faizah

Piper sarmentosum Roxb protects lungs against oxidative stress induced by carbon tetrachloride in rats


Jegede I. A., Ibrahim, J. A. and Kunle O. F.

Phytochemical and pharmacognostic studies of the leaf and stem-bark of Anthocleista vogelii (Planch)


Muhammad Azam Khan, Shahzad Akbar Khan, Muhammad Akhtar Qureshi, Gulzar Ahmed, Mir Ajab Khan, Mazhar Hussain and Ghulam Mujtaba Ghulam

Ethnobotany of some useful plants of Poonch Valley Azad Kashmir


Jin-Jie MA, Li-Ping KANG, Wen-Bin ZHOU, He-Shui YU, Ping LIU and Bai-Ping MA

Identification and characterization of saponins in extract of Ziziphi spinosae Semen (ZSS) by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-quadrupole time-of-?ight tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-ESI-QTOF-MSE)


Milić MATOVIĆ, Biljana BOJOVIĆ and MARINA JUŠKOVIĆ

Composition of essential oils from three classes of juniper fruit from Serbia


Sadia Ata, Faiza Farooq and Shabnam Javed

Elemental profile of 24 common medicinal plants of Pakistan and its direct link with traditional uses


Muhammad Shehzad, Asif Tanveer, Muhammad Ayub, Khuram Mubeen, Naeem Sarwar, Muhammad Ibrahim and Imran Qadir

Effect of weed-crop competition on growth and yield of garden cress (Lepidium sativum L.)


Pansa Monkheang, Runglawan Sudmoon, Tawatchai Tanee, Kowit Noikotr, Nat Bletter and Arunrat Chaveerach

Species diversity, usages, molecular markers and barcode of medicinal Senna species (Fabaceae, Caesalpinioideae) in Thailand


Fadlina Chany Saputri and Ibrahim Jantan

Effects of selected medicinal plants on human low-density lipoprotein oxidation, 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radicals and human platelet aggregation


Tsu-Shing Wang, Chong-Kuei Lii, Yuan-Ching Huang, Jen-Yun Chang and Fang-Yue Yang

Anticlastogenic effect of aqueous extract from water yam (Dioscorea alata L.)


Chih-Chien Lin, Chao-Hsun Yang, Pey-Shiuan Wu, Chang-Chin Kwan and Yi-Shyan Chen

Antimicrobial, anti-tyrosinase and antioxidant activities of aqueous aromatic extracts from forty-eight selected herbs


Ahmad Yari Khosoushahi, Hossein Naderi-Manesh and Yadollah Omidi

Effects of Camellia sinensis L. extract and cysteine on browning, growth and paclitaxel production of subcultured Taxus brevifolia L. calli


Yashwant S. Rawat and Colin S. Everson

Inula racemosa Hook. f: A potential medicinal crop in the cold desert agro-ecosystem of North Western Himalaya, India


Riffat Ayesha, Noreen Fatima, Misbah Ruqayya, Hina Faheem, Khalid Mahmood Qureshi, Ishfaq Ahmad Hafiz, Khalid Saifullah Khan, Usman Ali and Atif Kamal

Influence of different growth media on the fruit quality and reproductive growth parameters of strawberry (Fragaria ananassa)


Mohammed Adefa Seid and Berhanu Abraha Tsegay

Ethnobotanical survey of traditional medicinal plants in Tehuledere district, South Wollo, Ethiopia


Uzma Bashir, Arshad Javaid and Rukhsana Bajwa

Comparative tolerance of different rice varieties to sunflower phytotoxicity


Akhtar Rasul, Naveed Akhtar, Barkat Ali Khan, Tariq Mahmood, Shahiq uz Zaman, Atif Ali, Haji M. Shoaib Khan and Rashida Parveen

Evaluation for antierythmic and depigmenting effects of a newly formulated emulsion containing basil extract


Riaz Ullah

Immunomodulatory activities of different crude fractions of Nepeta juncea


H. M. Asif, M. Akram, Shahab Uddin, Zahoor Ul Hasan, Abdul Sami, Asif Iqbal, Umar Tauseef and Abdul Bari

Myrtus communis Linn. (Pharmacological activity)




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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (27), 2011


Contents:

Research Articles



Sergio Mota-Fernández, José David Álvarez-Solis, Miguel Abud-Archila, Luc Dendooven and Federico A. Gutiérrez-Miceli

Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and phosphorus concentration on plant growth and phenols in micropropagated Aloe vera L. plantlets


Soo-Hyun Park, Yun-Beom Sim, Seon-Mi Kim, Yu-Jung Kang, Jin-Koo Lee, Soon-Sung Lim, Jin-Kyu Kim and Hong-Won Suh

Antinociceptive profiles and mechanisms of orally administered Aster Koraiensis extract in the mouse


KADJA Amani Brice, MAMYRBÉKOVA-BÉKRO Janat Akhanovna, BENIE Anoubilé, BOUA Boua Benson, N’GAMAN Kohué Christelle and BEKRO Yves-Alain

Erythrophleum africanum Afzel. (Caesalpiniaceae), an African toothpick: Phytochemical screening, total flavonoid content and antioxidant activity


Baolin Bian, Agnieszka Lower-Nedza, Jianfang Song, Hongjie Wang and Adelheid Brantner

Validation of a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method for the quality control of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) formulation, Traditional Chinese formula Huanglianjiedutang (HLJDT)


Jinwei Xia, Xiuzhen Zhang, Xiyun Ye, Jiang Liu, Lishan Wang and Yuan Zhong

Intervention study of Ginkgo biloba extract in rat model of lipid-induced insulin resistance


Daniel Zin Hua Wong and Habsah Abdul Kadir

Antioxidative and neuroprotective effects of Loranthus parasiticus (L.) Merr (Loranthaceae) against oxidative stress in NG108-15 cells


S. Habib Naqvi, M. Umar Dahot, M. Rafiq, M. Yakoub Khan, Imran Ibrahim, Khalid H. Lashari, Asghar Ali and A. L. Korai

Anti-microbial efficacy and biochemical analysis from different parts of Acacia nilotica L. and Ricinus communis L. extracts


Jegede, A., Oladosu, P., Ameh, S., Kolo, I., Izebe, K., Builders, P., Yahaya T., Okhale, S., Mustapha, B., Busu, S., Shittu, H. and Gamaniel, K.

Status of management of diabetes mellitus by traditional medicine practitioners in Nigeria


El-Adawi H., El-Azhary D., Abd El-Wahab A. and El-Shafeey M. and Abdel-Mohsen M.

Protective effect of milk thistle and grape seed extracts on fumonisin B1 induced hepato- and nephro-toxicity in rats


Heng Zhao, Yang Zhang, Bo Liu, Ke Meng and Chunyan Wang

Effects of salidroside on the protection of diabetic encephalopathy and improvement of abilities of learning and memory in rat


Kuipo Yan, Yong Guo, Zhihua Xing, Xing Wei, Shengping Dai, Xinhua Sun and Min Duan

Dan-Shen-Yin has integrated protective effects in diabetic atherosclerosis rat models


Mozhgan Farzami Sepehr, Seyed Behnameddin Jameie and Bahareh Hajijafari

The Cuscuta kotschyana effects on breast cancer cells line MCF7


Suzana Augustino, John B. Hall, Fortunatus B. S. Makonda and Romanus C. Ishengoma

Medicinal Resources of the Miombo woodlands of Urumwa, Tanzania: Plants and its uses


Samaneh Ghasemi Fard, Rosalina Tan Roslan Tan, Ajwad Awad Mohammed, Goh Yong Meng, Sharifah Kharidah Syed Muhamad, Karim Alwan AL-Jashamy and Suhaila Mohamed

Wound healing properties of Eucheuma cottonii extracts in Sprague-Dawley rats


M. Shaban, M. F. Ali and Mohamed H. Gaber

Photochemical targeted drug delivery of liposomal membrane embedded photoreceptor hypericin




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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (28), 2011


Contents:

Review



Saeed Ahmad, Huma Rao, Muhammad Akhtar, Irshad Ahmad, Muhammad Munawar Hayat, Zafar Iqbal and Nisar-ur-Rahman

Phytochemical composition and pharmacological prospectus of Ficus bengalensis Linn. (Moraceae)- A review


Research Articles



Jia-bin Deng, Chun-bang Ding, Li Zhang, Rui-wu Yang and Yong-hong Zhou

Authentication of three related herbal species (Curcuma) by DNA barcoding


Hongfang Zhao, Linzhang Huang, Luping Qin and Baokang Huang

Antioxidative and anti-inflammatory properties of Chushizi oil from Fructus Broussonetiae


Yu Jiang, Chun-bang Ding, Li Zhang, Ruiwu Yang, Yonghong Zhou and Li Tang

Identification of the genus Epimedium with DNA barcodes


Raihana R., Faridah Q. Z., Julia A. A., Abdelmageed A. H. A. and Mihdzar Abdul Kadir

In vitro culture of Curcuma mangga from rhizome bud


Tehmina Asmat, Mir Ajab Khan, Mushtaq Ahmed, Muhammad Zafar, Fouzia Manzoor, Mamoona Munir, Kulsoom Akhtar, Shazia Bashir, Tehmeena Mukhtar, Madiha Ambreen and Sidra Nisar Abbasi

Pollen morphology of selected species of Scrophulariaceae of District Dir Upper, Pakistan


Baoli Xu, Xiankuan Li, Yongrui Bao, Huijie Guan, Liang Xu and Bing Wang

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS) determination of the trace element of Physalis alkekengi L. and its influence on the succession cropping obstacle


Ajibade A. J., Fakunle P. B., Ashamu E. A. and Owolabi S. O.

Some morphological changes on the kidney of adult Wistar rats following administration of crude extract of Ocimum gratissimum


Faiza Khan, Zubaida Yousaf, Sumaria Rani and Farah Khan

Taxonomic treatment of medicinally important arboreal flora of tropical and subtropical region based on leaf epidermal anatomical markers


Seyyed Najmedin Mortazavi, Mahmoud Mohebbi and Yavar Sharafi

Effects of nanosilver and sucrose on vase life of cut Rose flower (Rosa hybrid cv. ‘Royal’)


Firoz Anwar, Salem S. Alghamdi, Megahed H. Ammar and K. H. M. Siddique

An efficient in vitro regeneration protocol for faba bean (Vicia faba L.)


Farah Khan, Amina Younas, Shabnum shaheeen, Zubaida Yousaf, Khadija Gilani, Maleeha Munawar, Zaryab Khalid Sial, Mushtaq Ahma2 and Muhammad Zafar

Scavenging evaluation of copper and cadmium during in vivo and in vitro growth of Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. by atomic absorption spectroscopy


Umar K. J., Rabah A. B., Na’ala M., Bello M., Ibrahim M. L. and Garba M.

Antibacterial and phytochemical screening of methanolic extract of Celosia leptostachya Benth leaves on some selected clinical isolates





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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (29), 2011


Contents:

Research Articles



Jin-Taek Hwang, Chang Won Ahn, Hyun Jin Kim, Kyung Ae Lee, Ock Jin Park and Dae Young Kwon

Black soybean peptide mixture purified from Rhynchosia volubilis exerts antioxidant activity against H2O2-induced cytotoxicity and improves thrombosis



Buket Kunduhoglu, Mine Kurkcuoglu, Mehmet Emin Duru and Kemal Husnu Can Baser

Antimicrobial and anticholinesterase activities of the essential oils isolated from Salvia dicroantha Stapf., Salvia verticillata L. subsp. amasiaca (Freyn and Bornm.) Bornm. and Salvia wiedemannii Boiss.


Ghassem Habibi Bibalani

Average stem biomass of Prangos cheilanthifolia as a medicinal plant in Shanjan Rangelands, East Azerbaijan, Iran


Wenqian Chen, Yanqing Zhang, Junbo Xie, Tianyan Zhou and Wei Lu

Antagonism activity against acute myocardial ischemia of Paeoniflorin and its pharmacokinetic/ pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modeling in rats



Adel Kadri, Zied Zarai, Ines Ben Chobba, Ahmed Békir, Néji Gharsallah, Mohamed Damak and Radhouane Gdoura

Chemical constituents and antioxidant properties of Rosmarinus officinalis L. essential oil cultivated from the South-Western of Tunisia


Javid Hussain, Najeeb ur Rehman, Ahmed Al-Harrasi, Liaqat Ali, Riaz Ullah, Fazal Mabood, Hidayat Hussain and Mohammad Ismail

Nutritional prospects and mineral compositions of selected vegetables from Dhoda sharif – Kohat


Fatemeh Ashtiania and Fatemeh Sefidkonb

Tropane alkaloids of Atropa belladonna L. and Atropa acuminata Royle ex Miers plants


Qiu-Mei Quan, Zeng-Li Fang, Wei Wu and Yun-xiang Li

Comparative analysis of morphological characteristics and effective composition content of wild and cultivated Epimedium pubescens and Epimedium wushanense (Berberidaceae)


Kai Zhao, Zhugang Li, Nan Ge, Xiuliang Li, Xin Wang and Dongpo Zhou

Investigation of fermentation conditions and optimization of medium for taxol production from taxol-producing fungi


Sumana Das, Kuntal Das and Veenapani Dubey

Inhibitory activity and phytochemical assessment of ethno-medicinal plants against some human pathogenic bacteria


Marcel Pârvu, Alina Elena Pârvu, Laurian Vlase, Oana Roşca-Casian, Ovidiu Pârvu and Mihai Puşcaş

Allicin and alliin content and antifungal activity of Allium senescens L. ssp. montanum (F. W. Schmidt) Holub ethanol extract


Chunhui Yin, Peiqin Li, Hongjun Li, Lijian Xu, Jianglin Zhao, Tijiang Shan and Ligang Zhou

Enhancement of diosgenin production in Dioscorea zingiberensis seedling and cell cultures by beauvericin from the endophytic fungus Fusarium redolens Dzf2


Hai-jin Shen, Qiao-sheng Guo and Hai-ling Fang

Impact of different colored shade polyethylene and maturation on development of flavonoids and phenolic acids in flowers of Chrysanthemum indicum L.


Xian-zhong Peng, Shao-shui Chen, Fang-ling Ning, Mian-li Li

Evaluation of in vitro antioxidant and antitumour activities of Astragalus membranaceus aqueous extract


Erkan Kalipci

Investigation of decontamination effect of Phragmites australis for Konya domestic wastewater treatment


E. Mohiuudin, M. Akram, Naveed Akhtar, H. M. Asif, Pervaiz Akhtar Shah, Tariq Saeed, Arshad Mahmood and Nadia Shamshad Malik

Medicinal potentials of Alpinia galanga


L. L. Zhai, T. Liu, H. Q. Xie, Y. H. Xie and Q. Mu

Inhibition effects on HBV replication by hydrophobic extracts from Ferula ferulaeoides (Steud.) Korov



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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (30), 2011


Contents:

Review



Yazdani, D., Tan, Y. H., Zainal Abidin, M. A. and Jaganath, I. B

A review on bioactive compounds isolated from plants against plant pathogenic fungi



Research Articles



Olivera Politeo, Irena Botica, Tea Bilusic, Mila Jukic, Ivana Carev, Franko Burcul and Mladen Milos

Chemical composition and evaluation of acetylcholinesterase inhibition and antioxidant activity of essential oil from Dalmatian endemic species Pinus nigra Arnold ssp. dalmatica (Vis.) Franco


Tauheeda Riaz, Muhammad Athar Abbasi, Aziz-ur-Rehman, Tayyaba Shahzadi, Sabahat Zahra Siddiqui, Hira Khalid and Muhammad Ajaib

In vitro assessment of fortification from oxidative stress by various fractions of Rhynchosia pseudo-cajan


Qizhi Wang, Aoxue Luo, Yijun Fan, Aoshuang Luo and Jianfu Liu

In vitro antioxidant activity of Polysaccharide from Sedum aizoon L. extracts


Mehdi Ghanavati, Sadollah Houshmand, Hossein Zainali and Farid Ejlali

Salinity effects on germination and growth of chamomile genotypes


F. Akwatulira, S. Gwali, P. Ssegawa, J. B. L. Okullo, S. B. Tumwebaze, J. R. Mbwambo and A. Muchugi

Vegetative propagation of Warburgia ugandensis Sprague: An important medicinal tree species in eastern Africa


Oyebanji, Olanike Bukola and Saba, Adebowale Bernard

Phytochemistry and in vitro anti-oxidant activities of Stellaria media, Cajanus cajan and Tetracera potatoria methanolic extracts


Baoyang Wei, Liang Cao, Shunxiang Li, Dan Huang, Guangxian Cai and Lu Xiangyang

Population structure of Euodia rutaecarpa in China revealed by amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP)


Francis M. Awah, Chika M. Kamen, Ifeobu C. Ezenwa, Ken Francis Ogbudumukpa and Magdalene P. Umoh

In vivo antioxidant potentials of Stachytarpheta angustifolia leaf extract on acute butylated hydroxytoluene-induced oxidative stress in Wistar rats


Jia-bin Deng, Chun-bang Ding, Li Zhang, Rui-wu Yang and Yong-hong Zhou

Authentication of three related herbal species (Curcuma) by DNA barcoding


L. Maness, N. Sneed, B. Hardy, J. Yu, M. Ahmedna and I. Goktepe

Anti-proliferative effect of Pleurotus tuberregium against colon and cervical cancer cells


B. M. Agaie and P. A. Onyeyili

In vitro anthelmintic activity of the aqueous leaf extract of Anogeissus leiocarpus and its phytochemical, proximate and elemental contents


Jameel Bzour, Sawsan Oran, Mohammad Khaleel, Sundus Mashallah and Yasser Bustanji

Inhibitory effects of methanolic extract of Salvia fruticosa Mill. on pro-inflammatory cytokines production in RAW 264.7 in vitro cellular model and in Balb/c mice in vivo animal model


Min Zhang, Navam S Hettiarachchy, Ronny Horax, Arvind Kannan, Apputhury Praisoody M. D., Arumugam Muhundan and Chandrasekhara Reddy Mallangi

Phytochemicals, antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of Hibiscus sabdariffa, Centella asiatica, Moringa oleifera and Murraya koenigii leaves


Fatima N. and Anis M.

Thidiazuron induced high frequency axillary shoot multiplication in Withania somnifera L. Dunal


Smail Aazza, Badiâ Lyoussi and Maria G. Miguel

Antioxidant activity of some Morrocan hydrosols




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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (11-15), 2011

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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (11), 2011


Contents:


Review


Venkata Sai Prakash Chaturvedula and Indra Prakash

The aroma, taste, color and bioactive constituents of tea


Gulshan Chaudhary and Prem Kumar Dantu

Morphological, phytochemical and pharmacological, studies on Boerhaavia diffusa L.


Bilal Ahmad Wani, Amina Khan Rouf Hamza and F. A. Mohiddin

Saffron: A repository of medicinal properties


Research Articles


Abubakar A., Iliyasu B., Ojiegbu F. N., Igweh A.C., Shamaki B. U., Dung E. C., Domtur L. L., Okogun J. I., Gbodi T. A. and Ogbadoyi E. O.

Evaluation of the antitrypanosomal activity of Cucumis metuliferus pulp extract in rabbits


Zhou Wen-hua, Jiang Ai-min, P. U. Yi-xin, Zhang Hai-de and Ren Honghao

Areca nut oil with arecoline can enhance hypolipidemia in rats


Kritchaya Issakul, Araya Jatisatienr, Elke Pawelzik and Chaiwat Jatisatienr

Potential of Mammea siamensis as a botanical insecticide: Its efficiency on diamondback moth and side effects on non-target organisms


Hina Iqbal, Zaman Sher and Zaheer Uddin Khan

Medicinal plants from salt range Pind Dadan Khan, district Jhelum, Punjab, Pakistan


Majid Shokrpour, Mousa Torabi Gigloo, Ali Asghari and Shirin Bahrampour

Study of some agronomic attributes in milk thistle (Silybum marianum Gaertn.) ecotypes from Iran


Filiz Akbaş, Çigdem Isikalan, Süreyya Namli, Pinar Karakuş and Davut Başaran

Direct plant regeneration from in vitro-derived leaf explants of Hypericum spectabile, a medicinal plant


J. M. Sini, I. A. Umar and H. M. Inuwa

The beneficial effect of extract of Hibiscus sabdariffa calyces in alloxan-diabetic rats: Hypoglycaemic and hypolipidaemic activities


Lin Zhang, Peihe Nie, Guohua Zhang, Weifang Rong, and Jianming Zhi

Endothelium-independent vasodilation effect of hydroxysafflor yellow A in thoracic aorta of Wistar rats


Zhonghai Tang, Liqun Rao, Guoping Peng, Min Zhou, Guorong Shi and Yizeng Liang

Effects of endophytic fungus and its elicitors on cell status and alkaloid synthesis in cell suspension cultures of Catharanthus roseus


Norfaizatul Shalida Omar, Zetty Akmal Che Zakaria, Then Sue Mian, Wan Zurinah Wan Ngah and Musalmah Mazlan

Centella asiatica modulates neuron cell survival by altering caspase-9 pathway


Christine Stanly, Arvind Bhatt, Hag Mohammed Daffaralah Ali, Chan Lai Keng and Boey Peng Lim

Evaluation of free radical scavenging activity and total phenolic content in the petiole-derived callus cultures of Zingiber zerumbet Smith


Jie Sun, Guoyou Yin, Peng Du and Lanying Chen

Optimization of extraction technique of polysaccharides from pumpkin by response surface method


Forough Golsaz Shirazi, Azadeh Raoufi, Mehdi Yousefi, Hossein Asgarian-Omran, Ali Memarian, Jalal Khoshnoodi, Vahid Younesi and Fazel Shokri

In vitro immunoinhibitory effects of Setarud on human B lymphocyte


Yavar Sharafi

Investigation on pollen viability and longevity in Malus pumila L., Pyrus commonis L., and Cydonia oblonga L., in vitro


Simona Ioana Vicaş, Dumitriţa Rugină, and Carmen Socaciu

Comparative study about antioxidant activities of Viscum album from different host trees, harvested in different seasonsd


Yafeng Li, Yanli Wang, Qi Yu, Kena Wei, Meng Li, Sihai Zhao, Yuzuru Kurabayashi, Jianglin Fan and Enqi Liu

Compound Danshen dripping pills for stable angina: Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials


Munesh Kumar, Rainer W. Bussmann, Joshi Mukesh and Pramod Kumar

Ethnomedicinal uses of plants close to rural habitation in Garhwal Himalaya, India


Sook Yee Hor, Elham Farsi, Mun Fei Yam, Norazimah Mat Nuyah and Mohd. Zaini Asmawi

Lipid-lowering effects of Coriolus versicolor extract in poloxamer 407-induced hypercholesterolaemic rats and high cholesterol-fed rats


Sujatha Ramasamy, Norhanom Abdul Wahab, Nurhayati Zainal Abidin and Sugumaran Manickam

Cytotoxicity evaluation of five selected Malaysian Phyllanthaceae species on various human cancer cell lines


Muhammed Ayub, Muhammad Naeem, Muhammad Ather Nadeem, Asif Tanveer, Muhammad Tahir and Rehan Alam

Effect of nitrogen application on growth, yield and oil contents of Fennel (Foenoculum vulgare Mill.)


Malkait Singh Saini, Nakeer Razak and Irfan Ahmad

Poophilus costalis Walker (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Aphrophoridae): A possible constraint to commercial exploitation of Lavendula angustifolia Mill in Kashmir Himalaya with affinity for C3 photosynthetic plants


Liang Zhenhong

Chemical analysis of Magnolia liliflora essential oil and its pharmacological function in nursing pregnant women suffering from decubitus ulcer


F. Mollamin, N. Hooshmand and M. Monajjemi

Molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo and DFT studies of boron-nitride nano cones: properties investigating B10N11H7 (Thr)2 in different temperatures and solvents


Danbing Jia

Composition and effect of anti-hypoxia of Chinese medicinal plant mixture


Shehata, S. A. Gharib, A. A., Mohamed M. El-Mogy, Abdel Gawad, K. F. and Emad A. Shalaby

Influence of compost, amino and humic acids on the growth, yield and chemical parameters of strawberries


Diab R, Mounayar A, Maalouf E and Chahine R

Beneficial effects of Solanum melongena (Solanaceae) peduncles extracts, in periodontal diseases


M. Ramesh, A. Karthikeyan, K. Vijayakumar, M. Joe Virgin Largia and S. Karutha Pandian

Agrobacterium- Mediated transformation of pharmaceutically important Indian medicinal herb Bacopa monnieri (L.)


Yun-Fang Chen, Hsiao-Yuh Roan, Chong-Kuei Lii, Yuan-Ching Huang and Tsu-Shing Wang

Relationship between antioxidant and antiglycation ability of saponins, polyphenols, and polysaccharides in Chinese herbal medicines used to treat diabetes


Landy N., Ghalamkari Gh, Toghyani M. and Moattar F.

The effects of Echinacea purpurea L. (purple coneflower) as an antibiotic growth promoter substitution on performance, carcass characteristics and humoral immune response in broiler chickens


Dorota Bonarska-Kujawa, Sylwia Cyboran, Jan Oszmiański and Halina Kleszczyńska

Antioxidant properties of apple leaves and fruits extracts from apple leaves and fruits as effective antioxidants


Adeel Mahmood, Aqeel Mahmood, Hamayun Shaheen, Rizwana Aleem Qureshi, Yasmin Sangi and Aneel Galani

Ethno medicinal survey of plants from district Bhimber Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan


Wen-yuan Guo, Zhi-jia Ni, Zheng-xin Wang, Zhi-ren Fu and Rui-dong Li

The protective effects of ginkgo leaf extract on CCl4-induced liver injury in mice


Abbas Azadmehr, Reza Hajiaghaee, Afshin Afshari, Zahra Amirghofran, Mahmoud Refieian-Kopaei, Hossein yousofi Darani and Hedayatollah Shirzad

Evaluation of in vivo immune response activity and in vitro anti-cancer effect by Scrophularia megalantha


Ji Young Park, Won-Jun Oh, Dong-Mi Kwak, Min-Gyeong Kim, Geon-Sik Seo, Seung-Bok Hong and Man Hee Rhee

The anti-platelet activity of Hypsizygus marmoreus extract is involved in the suppression of intracellular calcium mobilization and integrin ?IIbß3 activation


Keyong Ho Lee, Choa Hyung Cho and Ki - Hyeong Rhee

Synergic anti-tumor activity of gamma-irradiated exo-polysaccharide from submerged culture of Grifola frondosa


M. M. Rahman and S. K. Bhadra

Development of protocol for in vitro culture and rapid propagation of Wedelia chinensis (Osbeek) Merr.


Susi Endrini, Suherman Jaksa, Himmi Marsiati, Fauziah Othman and Asmah Rahmat

Effects of cola nut (Cola nitida) on the apoptotic cell of human breast carcinoma cell lines


Akinpelu A. David, Awotorebo T. Olaniyi, Agunbiade O. Mayowa, Aiyegoro A. Olayinka and Okoh I. Anthony

Anti-Vibrio and preliminary phytochemical characteristics of crude methanolic extracts of the leaves of Dialium guineense (Wild)


Dedi Noviendri, Irwandi Jaswir, Hamzah Mohd. Salleh, Muhammad Taher, Kazuo Miyashita and Nazaruddin Ramli

Fucoxanthin extraction and fatty acid analysis of Sargassum binderi and S. duplicatum


Shima Gharibi, Mehdi Rahimmalek, Aghafakhr Mirlohi, Mohammad Mehdi Majidi and Badraldin Ebrahim Sayed Tabatabaei

Assessment of genetic diversity in Achillea millefolium subsp. millefolium and Achillea millefolium subsp. elbursensis using morphological and ISSR markers


Yi Bi, Jingwei Tian, Liang Wang, Fenglan Zhao, Jiangfeng Zhang, Nan Wang, Haijun Sun and Qingguo Meng

Synthesis, structural determination and protective effects on cultured anoxia/reoxygen injury myocardiocytes of ocotillol-type derivatives


Asif Iqbal, Syed Muhammad Ali Shah, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Akram and Khan Usmanghani

Comparative study between Hepotin (herbal formulation) and Interferon alpha 2b and Ribavirin in the treatment of Hepatitis C


Ali Ghasemzadeh and Neda Ghasemzadeh

Effects of shading on synthesis and accumulation of polyphenolic compounds in ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) varieties


Abimbola Sowemimo, Maryna Van de Venter, Lucinda Baatjies and Trevor Koekemoer

Cytotoxicity evaluation of selected Nigerian plants used in traditional cancer treatment


Sang Quan-xi

Effect of “wuqinxi” exercise on antioxidant status, intestine Bacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei and Bacillus bifidus in obese old people



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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (12), 2011


Contents:

Research Articles


P. Rama Bhat, P. S. Prajna, V. Kumar, M. Adarsh Hegde and L. Singh

Antimicrobial properties of leaves of Calycopteris floribunda Lam.


Gul Jan, MirAjab Kahan, Mushtaq Ahmad, Zafar Iqbal, Aftab Afzal, Muhammad Afzal, Ghulam Mujtaba Shah, Abdul Majid, Muhammad Fiaz, Muhammad Zafar, Abdul Waheed and Farzana Gul

Nutritional analysis, micronutrients and chlorophyll contents of Cichorium intybus L.


Siddiqui M. Asif, Amir Asad, Vats Poonam, Rani Kalpana, Malik S. Anjali, Arya Arvind, Kapoor Neelesh and Kumar Hirdesh

Arthritis database: A composite web interface for anti-arthritic plants


Mahmood A. A., Al-Bayaty F. H., Salmah I., Nor Syuhada A. B., Harita H. and Mughrabi F. F.

Enhancement of gastric ulcer by Areca catechu nut in ethanol-induced gastric mucosal injuries in rats


Yakubu A. I and Mukhtar M. D

In vitro antimicrobial activity of some phytochemical fractions of Euphorbia pulcherima L. (Poinsettia)


E. J. Hayhoe and E. A. Palombo

Extracts of Eremophila longifolia inhibit the cariogenic activities of Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus


Alireza Pirzad, Mohammad Reza Shakiba, Saeed Zehtab-Salmasi, Seyed Abolghasem Mohammadi, Reza Darvishzadeh and Abbas Samadi

Effect of water stress on leaf relative water content, chlorophyll, proline and soluble carbohydrates in Matricaria chamomilla L.


Marcelo F. de Araújo, Claudiana B. dos Santos, Jéssica F. Cavalcanti, Fernanda S. Pereira, Gabriella S. Mendes, Alceni A. Werle, Maria Teresa V. Romanos and Mário G. de Carvalho

Proposed active compounds from Ouratea parviflora


Yi-Hang Wu, Bing-Jie Hao, E. Shen, Xiao-Meng Zhang and Yu Zhao

Regulatory effect of Laggera alata extract on immune mediated liver injury


Hai–xia Duan, Xiang-dong Ma, Xing-Ma, Yong-Wu Hu and Bi-Liang Chen

Antiproliferation and apoptosis induced by Bisdemethoxycurcumin in human ovarian cancer cell SKOV3


Sonia Hamlaoui-Gasmi, Meherzia Mokni, Ferid Limam, Ezzedine Aouani, Mohamed Amri and Lamjed Marzouki

Effect of the route of garlic treatment on modulation of erythrocytes and plasma redox status in rats


Muhammad Rashid Khan, Javeria Haroon, Rahmat Ali Khan, Jasia Bokhari, Maria Shabbir and Umbreen Rashid

Prevention of KBrO3-induced cardiotoxicity by Sonchus asper in rat


Akinloye O. A. and Solanke, O. O.

Evaluation of hypolipidemic and potential antioxidant effects of Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (l) mill sp.) leaves in alloxan-induced hyperglycemic rats.


M. Zargar, A. H. Azizah, A. M. Roheeyati, A. B. Fatimah, F. Jahanshiri and M. S. Pak-Dek

Bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity of different extracts from Vitex negundo leaf


Milena Villarini, Cristina Fatigoni, Barbara Cerbone, Luca Dominici, Massimo Moretti and Rita Pagiotti

In vitro testing of a laxative herbal food supplement for genotoxic and antigenotoxic properties


Saoussen Hammami, Asma Nguir, Dhouha Saidana, Jihene Cheriaa and Zine Mighri

Chemical analysis and antimicrobial effects of essential oil from Limoniastrum guyonianum growing in Tunisia


Kyung-Jin Jo, Jeung-Min Lee, Seung-Cheol Lee and Hae-Ryong Park

Anticancer activity of persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.) calyx extracts on human cancer cells


A. A. Zahra, F. A. Kadir, A. A. Mahmood, A. A. Al hadi, S. M. Suzy, S. Z. Sabri, I. I. Latif and K. A. Ketuly

Acute toxicity study and wound healing potential of Gynura procumbens leaf extract in rats


Lucas Junqueira de Freitas Morel, Danilo Morais Baratto, Paulo Sérgio Pereira, Silvia Helena Taleb Contini, Henrique Garcia Momm, Bianca Waléria Bertoni, Suzelei de Castro França and Ana Maria Soares Pereira

Loganin production in Palicourea rigida H.B.K. (Rubiaceae) from populations native to Brazilian Cerrado


A. Padmavathy and M. Anbarashan

Phytomedicinal study of coastal sand dune floras in Puducherry


Rubina Ghani, Asif Iqbal, Naveed Akhtar, Arshad Mahmood, Nida Shamshad Malik, Muhammad Usman, Hasan Ali, Mohammad Akram , H.M.Asif

Identification of different stages of hepatitis B infection with ELISA and PCR assay


Shubhi Mehrotra, Rohitash Jamwal, Radhey Shyam, Dharmendra Kumar Meena, Kshipra Mishra, Rajashree Patra, Ronita De, Asish Mukhopadhyay, Ashwani Kumar Srivastava and Shoma Paul Nandi

Anti-Helicobacter pylori and antioxidant properties of Emblica officinalis pulp extract: A potential source for therapeutic use against gastric ulcer


Benhong Zhou, Xiaojun Li, Zhenpeng Qiu and Gang Liu

Effect of leaves of Apocynum venetum L. on the activity of MAO in mice



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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (13), 2011


Contents:

Review


Saraswathi J., Venkatesh K., Nirmala Baburao, Majid Hameed Hilal and A. Roja Rani

Phytopharmacological importance of Pelargonium species


Bin Wang, Lan Lin, Qing Ni and Cheng lian Su

Hippophae rhamnoides Linn. for treatment of diabetes mellitus: A review


Research Articles


Harpreet Walia, Subodh Kumar and Saroj Arora

Comparative antioxidant analysis of hexane extracts of Terminalia chebula Retz. prepared by maceration and sequential extraction method


Ju-Sung Kim and Myong-Jo Kim

Anti-oxidant activity of Rhus verniciflua stokes by extract conditions


T. P. Jaca and L. Kambizi

Antibacterial properties of some wild leafy vegetables of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa


Nor Azma Yusuf, M. Suffian M. Annuar and Norzulaani Khalid

Efficient propagation of an important medicinal plant Boesenbergia rotunda by shoot derived callus


Annabelle A. Herrera and Evangeline C. Amor

Antiangiogenic activity of extracts and fractions from an endemic plant Ardisia pyramidalis (Cav.) Pers. From Bataan, Philippines using Duck in ovo chorioallantoic membrane assay


Himanshu Sharma and Ashwani Kumar

Effect of plant growth regulators and chemical fertilizers on growth and productivity of Chlorophytum tuberosum and Pergularia daemia


Zhu-Jun Wang, Qiang Zhang, Tie-Jing Li and Xin-Huai Zhao

A possible molecular mechanism of two flavones and two flavonols on the induction of differentiation in a human oesophageal adenocarcinoma cell line (OE33)


Eseyin Olorunfemi, Ebong Aniekan, Anefiok Udobre and Imo Udoh

Changes in the pharmacokinetics of chloroquine by the leaf extract of Lasianthera africana in rats


Mahmoud Rafieian-Kopaei, Sedigheh Asgary, Azadeh Adelnia, Mahbubeh Setorki, Majid Khazaei, Somayeh Kazemi and Fatemeh Shamsi

The effects of cornelian cherry on atherosclerosis and atherogenic factors in hypercholesterolemic rabbits


Mourboul Ablise, Xin Min Mao and Rena Kasim

Antioxidant activities of Uyghur medicinal tea in human HL-60 cell line and rat hepatic microsomes


Benzhi Cai, Nan Chen, Jianping Li, Zhiwei Fang, Gang Wang, Xinyue Wang, Xueying Tan, Tao Ban and Yanjie Lu

Matrine protects homocysteine-induced atrial dysfunction in rats


M. Wang, J. Li, L. Zhang, R. W. Yang, C. B. Ding, Y. H. Zhou and Z. Q. Yin

Genetic diversity among Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge and related species using morphological traits and RAPD markers


Muhterem Aydin and Murat Yuksel

The effects of high level ascorbic acid on pregnancy rate and litter size in rats


Ibrahim Jantan, Farra Aidah Jumuddin, Fadlina Chany Saputri and Khalid Rahman

Inhibitory effects of the extracts of Garcinia species on human low-density lipoprotein peroxidation and platelet aggregation in relation to their total phenolic contents


Mohammad Ariana, Abdolhossein Samie, Mohammad Ali Edriss and Rahman Jahanian

Effects of powder and extract form of green tea and marigold, and ?-tocopheryl acetate on performance, egg quality and egg yolk cholesterol levels of laying hens in late phase of production


Esfandiar Heidarian and Yadollah Soofiniya

Hypolipidemic and hypoglycemic effects of aerial part of Cynara scolymus in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats


Alya Maimoona, Ismat Naeem, Zeb Saddiqe, Niaz Ali, Ghayour Ahmed and Ismail Shah

Analysis of total flavonoids and phenolics in different fractions of bark and needle extracts of Pinus roxburghii and Pinus wallichiana


Lunesa C. Pinzon, Mylene M. Uy, Kung Hong Sze, Mingfu Wang and Ivan Keung Chu

Isolation and characterization of antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and chemopreventive flavones from Premna odorata Blanco


Deepika Gupta, Bruce Bleakley and Rajinder K. Gupta

Phytochemical analysis and antioxidant activity of herbal plant Doronicum hookeri Hook f. (Asteraceae).


Omotosho Ishiaq Olayinka, Henshaw Ansa Nta, and Adeagbo Ganiyat

Effect of natural antioxidant – Ocimum gratissimum in modulating neurodegenerative changes in rats fed with high concentration of lead acetate


Majid Toghyani, Mohsen Tohidi, Mehdi Toghyani, Abbasali Gheisari and Seyed Ali Tabeidian

Evaluation of yarrow (Achillea millefolium) as a natural growth promoter in comparison with a probiotic supplement on performance, humoral immunity and blood metabolites of broiler chicks


Sumaira Sahreen, Muhammad Rashid Khan and Rahmat Ali Khan

Phenolic compounds and antioxidant activities of Rumex hastatus D. Don. leaves


Gerhardt J. Boukes and Maryna van de Venter

Cytotoxicity and mechanism(s) of action of Hypoxis spp. (African potato) against HeLa, HT-29 and MCF-7 cancer cell lines


Saber Imani, Saeed Rezaei-Zarchi, Mehrdad Hashemi, Hojjat Borna, Amaneh Javid, Ali mohamad Zand and Hossein Bari Abarghouei

Hg, Cd and Pb heavy metal bioremediation by Dunaliella alga



Silje Glaserud, Tom Erik Gronhaug, Terje E. Michaelsen, Marit Inngjerdingen, Hilde Barsett, Drissa Diallo and Berit Smestad Paulsen

Immunomodulating polysaccharides from leaves of the Malian medicinal tree Combretum glutinosum; structural differences between small and large leaves can substantiate the preference for small leaves by some healers


J. Ruiz-Martínez, J. A. Ascacio, R. Rodríguez, D. Morales and C. N. Aguilar

Phytochemical screening of extracts from some Mexican plants used in traditional medicine


Quang-Vinh Nguyen and Jong-Bang Eun

Antioxidant activity of solvent extracts from Vietnamese medicinal plants


W. Maneerat, S. Tha-in, S. Cheenpracha, U. Prawat and S. Laphookhieo

New amides from the seeds of Clausana lansium


Kejun Deng, Yong Zhang, Liyuan Xie, Weihong Peng, Bingcheng Gan and Zhenglong Ren

Simultaneous determination of five fatty acids in Phellinus sp. by high-performance liquid chromatography with photodiode-array detection


Ahmad H. Al-Fraihat, Sati Y. A. Al-dalain, Mohammad S. Abu-Darwish, Jalal A. Al-Tabbal aand Ziad B. Al-Rawashdeh

Effect of organic and biofertilizers on growth, herb yield and volatile oil of marjoram plant grown in Ajloun region, Jordan


Pei Hou, Ziyin Xie, Le Zhang, Zhen Song, Jiao Mi, Yang He and Yufeng Li

Comparison of three different methods for total RNA extraction from Fritillaria unibracteata, a rare Chinese medicinal plant


Behzad Babazadeh Darjazi

A comparison of volatile components of flower of page mandarin obtained by ultrasound-assisted extraction and hydrodistillation


Jianhui Ye, Nana Li, Huiling Liang, Junjie Dong, Jianliang Lu, Xinqiang Zheng and Yuerong Liang

Determination of cyclic oligomers residues in tea catechins isolated by polyamide-6 column


Mamoona Munir, Mir Ajab Khan, Mushtaq Ahmad, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Muhammad Zafar, Kiran Yasmin Khan, Rabia Niamat, Kanwal Tariq, Saira Tabassum, Sidra Nisar Ahmed, Ume Habiba and Abida Bano. Paras Mazari

Taxonomic potential of foliar epidermal anatomy among the wild culinary vegetables of Pakistan


Shai L. J., Magano S. R., Lebelo S. L. and Mogale, A. M.

Inhibitory effects of five medicinal plants on rat alpha-glucosidase: Comparison with their effects on yeast alpha-glucosidase


Arshad Javaid and Hafiza Asma Rehman

Antifungal activity of leaf extracts of some medicinal trees against Macrophomina phaseolina


Xiao-Ling Wang, Gao-Qiang Liu, Chao-Yang Zhu, Guo-Ying Zhou and Si-Min Kuang

Enhanced production of mycelial biomass and extracellular polysaccharides in caterpillar-shaped medicinal mushroom Cordyceps sinensis CS001 by the addition of palmitic acid


Yang Wang, Xi Huang, Qinghua Liang, Rong Fan, Feng Qin, Jiekun Luo, Yunhui Li, Wei Liu, Xilian Mao, Hui Ji, Zhaoqian Liu, Honghao Zhou, Lan Fan and Lichen Gao

Simultaneous quantitation of seven anthraquinones in aqueous extract of rhubarb and analysis for absorption in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with traumatic brain injury using UPLC-PDA method


M. Malekzadeh, S. I. Mirmazloum, S. N. Mortazavi, M. Panahi and H. R. Angorani

Physicochemical properties and oil constituents of milk thistle (Silybum marianum Gaertn. cv. Budakalászi) under drought stress


Tie-shan Wang, Li-jing Chen, Zhao-yu Wang, Sheng-tan Zhang and Jing-ming Lin

Isolation, characterization and crystal structure of ethyl 4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxy-benzoate from Scutellaria barbata


A. A. Elshafei, Naglaa M. Esmaiel, A. A. Al-Doss and M. N. Barakat

An assessment of the cultural capabilities of clonal propagation and molecular characterization of Yucca elephantipes cultivars


Shima Gharibi, Mehdi Rahimmalek, Aghafakhr Mirlohi, Mohammad Mehdi Majidi and Badraldin Ebrahim Sayed Tabatabaei

Assessment of genetic diversity in Achillea millefolium subsp. millefolium and Achillea millefolium subsp. elbursensis using morphological and ISSR markers


Sheng Quan, Jun-bo Wang, Xiao-ping Xia, Xv-ai Lin and Jie Yan

Protective effect of puerarin form the roots of Pueraria lobata against systemic inflammatory response syndrome by regulating the levels of related cytokines


Rizwan Ashraf M. Phil, Rafeeq Alam Khan and Imran Ashraf

Effects of garlic on blood glucose levels and HbA1c in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus


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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (14), 2011


Contents:

Review


G. Phani Kumar, Raj Kumar, O. P. Chaurasia and Shashi Bala Singh

Current status and potential prospects of medicinal plant sector in trans- Himalayan Ladakh


Research Articles


Famurewa A .V., Emuekele P. O. and Jaiyeoba K. F.

Effect of drying and size reduction on the chemical and volatile oil contents of ginger (Zingiber officinale)


Li Xiang, Ma Jianzhong, Xiajing, Shi Yundong and Yu Qiaozhen

A study on the ultrasonic-assisted ethanol extraction of dioscin


Ayuba V. O., Ojobe T. O. and Ayuba S. A.

Phytochemical and proximate composition of Datura Innoxia leaf, seed, stem, pod and root


Zijing Xu, Cuiwu Lin and Yong Shi

Isolation and structure determination of a new oligosaccharide from Blume riparia


Yijun Fan, Zhongfu Ge and Aoxue Luo

In vitro antioxidant activity of polysaccharide from Gardenia jasminoides Ellis


Mohamed Tarroum, Salim Khan and Fahad Al-Qurainy

Evaluation of drought tolerance of ?-irradiated mutants of Hordeum vulgare


Alban Ibraliu, Xuefei Mi and Fetah Elezi

Variation in essential oils to study the biodiversity in Satureja montana L.


Alireza Rezaeizadeh, Zuki Bin Abu Bakar Zakaria, Maryam Abdollahi, Goh Yong Meng, Noordin Mohamed Mustapha, Muhajir Bin Hamid and Tengku Azmi Bin Tengku Ibrahim

Antioxidant and antihyperglycaemic effects of an aqueous extract from Momordica charantia fruit in a type II diabetic rat model


M. Falaki Khalilsaraie, N. Saima, N. T. Meti, R. K. Bhadekar and D. P. Nerkar

Cytological study and anti-microbial activity of embryogenic callus induced from leaf cultures of Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.) Miers


Shu-Mei Yue and Wen-Yi Kang

Lowering blood lipid and hepatoprotective activity of amentoflavone from Selaginella tamariscina in vivo


Mohanad R. Alwan, Oleksandr Krasilshchikov and Tengku Muzaffar bin Tengku Mohamad Shihabudin

The effects of tocotrienol supplementation on the muscle contractile properties, fatigue and antioxidant enzymes activities of gastrocnemius muscle of trained and untrained rats


Zhonghai Tang, Jingping Qin, Xiaona Xu, Guorong Shi, Hua Yang and Yizeng Liang

Applying silica gel column chromatography purify resveratrol from extracts of Morus alba L. Leaf


Ekwueme F. N., Oje O. A., Nwodo O. F. C. and Ozoemena N. F.

Anti-inflammatory capacity of the aqueous leaf extract of Senna mimosoides on inhibition of rat oedema, platelet aggregatory activity and prostaglandin synthase activity


Chun-hua Zhou, Xian Li, Chong-de Sun, Chang-jie Xu and Kun-song Chen

Effects of drying methods on the bioactive components in loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) flowers


Jin-feng Shao, Yuan-biao Wang, Que Chen, Zheng-qiong Liu, Qian Liu, Wen-guo Cai and Wei Wu

A daily variation in essential oil composition of flower of different accessions from Carthamus tinctorius L. in Sichuan province of China


Farnaz Malik, Shahzad Hussain, Tahira Mirza, Abdul Hameed, Safia Ahmad, Humayun Riaz, Pervaiz Akhtar Shah and Khan Usmanghani

Screening for antimicrobial activity of thirty-three medicinal plants used in the traditional system of medicine in Pakistan


Dong-Mei Liu, Ji-Wen Sheng, Hui-Min Qi, Wei-Fen Zhang, Chun-Ming Han and Xi-Long Xin

Antioxidant activity of polysaccharides extracted from Athyrium multidentatum (Doll) Ching


M. A. Goudarzi, B. Hamedi, F. Malekpoor, R. Abdizadeh, A. Ghasemi Pirbalouti, and M. Raissy

Sensitivity of Lactococcus garvieae isolated from rainbow trout to some Iranian medicinal herbs


Siavash Hosseinpour Chermahini, Fadzilah Adibah Abdul Majid and Mohamad Roji Sarmidi

Cosmeceutical value of herbal extracts as natural ingredients and novel technologies in anti-aging


Yaser Hassan Dewir, Nisha Singh, Senabelo Mngomezulu and Ali Mikael Kalifa Omar

Micropropagation and detection of important triterpenes in in vitro and field grown plants of Syzygium cordatum


Kejun Deng, Yong Zhang, Liyuan Xie, Weihong Peng, Bingcheng Gan and Zhenglong Ren

Simultaneous determination of five fatty acids in Phellinus sp. by high-performance liquid chromatography with photodiode-array detection


Bashir Ahmad, Ibrar khan, Sadiq Azam, Shumaila Bashir, Jamshaid Ahmad, Farrukh Hussain

Screening of Acacia modesta for haemagglutination, antibacterial, phytotoxic and Insecticidal activities


Fah Chueahongthong, Chadarat Ampasavate, Siriporn Okonogi, Singkome Tima and Songyot Anuchapreeda

Cytotoxic effects of crude kaffir lime (Citrus hystrix, DC.) leaf fractional extracts on leukemic cell lines


Jian-chao Wang, Jun-yu Zhang, Qiang Wang and Wan-ru Cai

Parthenolide sensitizes HL-60 cells to aclarubicin-induced apoptosis by inhibiting NF-kappa band COX-2 activation


Afolabi I. S. and Ofobrukweta K.

Physicochemical and nutritional qualities of Carica papaya seed products


Venkatesh Kumar R. and Amit Srivastava

In vivo therapeutic effects of antibacterial and antiviral antibiotics using Bombyx mori L. as an animal model


Fatemeh Nabavizadeh, Ali Mohammad Alizadeh, Zahra Sadroleslami and Soheila Adeli

Gastroprotective effects of amygdalin on experimental gastric ulcer: Role of NO and TNF-?


Jie Sun and Ya-Hui Wei

A new alkaloid-aluminum glycoside isolated from Rhizoma Sparganii (Sparganium stoloniferum Buch. -Ham.)


Viresh Mohanlall, Paul Steenkamp and Bharti Odhav

Isolation and characterization of anthraquinone derivatives from Ceratotheca triloba (Bernh.) Hook.f.


Kazem Ghassemi-Golezani, Saeid Zehtab-Salmasi and Soheila Dastborhan

Changes in essential oil content of dill (Anethum graveolens) organs under salinity stress


Njume C., Afolayan A. J. and Ndip R. N.

Diversity of plants used in the treatment of Helicobacter pylori associated morbidities in the Nkonkobe municipality of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa


Zaki Tubesha, Shahid Iqbal and Maznah Ismail

Effects of hydrolytic conditions on recovery of antioxidants from methanolic extracts of Nigella sativa seeds


Inhye Kim, Jin-Young Kim, Yu-Jin Hwang, Kyung-A Hwang, Ae-Son Om, Jae-Hyun Kim and Kang-Jin Cho

The beneficial effects of aged black garlic extract on obesity and hyperlipidemia in rats fed a high-fat diet


Yali Liu, Shuying Han, Yanshu Zhu, Yonggang Li, Xiaojuan Zhu and Guiyun Wang

Adjuvant effect of saponins isolated from the sepal of Physalis alkekengi L. var. francheti (Mast.) Makino fruit on the immune responses to ovalbumin in mice


Sadaki Yokota, Yuko Onohara, Takuhiro Uto, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Osamu Morinaga and Yukihiro Shoyama

Localization of ginsenoside-Rb1 in Panax ginseng revealed by immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopic techniques


Mahdi Pouramir, Mohammad Esmaiel Shahaboddin, Ali-Akbar Moghadamnia and Karim Parastouei

To study the effects of Securigera securidaca (L.) seed against alloxan-induced hyperglycemia


Irene Kamenidou, Stamatis Aggelopoulos and Athanasios C. Batzios

Natural medical attributes and benefits of Spirulina: Segmentation based on consumers’ knowledge


Francis Chin Pheng Lim, Anna Pick Kiong Ling, Siew Ling Hii and Sobri Hussein

Towards understanding of physiological changes in cell culture of recalcitrant woody plant, Eurycoma longifolia, in response to carbon and nitrogen sources


Njume C., Afolayan A. J., Samie A. and Ndip R. N.

In-vitro anti-Helicobacter pylori activity of acetone, ethanol and methanol extracts of the stem bark of Combretum molle (Combretaceae)


Ai-hua Zhang, Feng-jie Lei, Si-wen Fang, Ming-hui Jia and Lian-xue Zhang

Effects of ginsenosides on the growth and activity of antioxidant enzymes in American ginseng seedlings


Celia Jimena Pena, Arun Reverte, Luis Barbo Hernandez, Samuel Meraz, Manuel Jiménez, Ana María García, Guillermo Avila and Tzasna Hernández

Antimicrobial, antioxidant and toxic effects of Senna skinneri Bentham, Irwin and Barneby (Leguminoseae)


Idin Zibaee, Arash zibaee, Ali Reza Bandani, Jalal Jalali Sendi and Reza Talaei-Hassanloei

Artemisia annua L. (Asterasea) changes some biochemical compounds in the hemolymph of Hyphantria cunea Drury (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)


Kazem Ghassemi-Golezani, Afsaneh Chadordooz-Jeddi and Parisa Zafarani-Moattar

Influence of salt-priming on mucilage yield of Isabgol (Plantago ovata Forsk) under salinity stress


Ahmad Reza Golparvar and Abdollah Ghasemi Pirbalouti and Marzieh Karimi

Determination of the effective traits on essence percent and dry flower yield in German chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla L.) populations


Ali Ghasemzadeh and Hawa Z. E. Jaafar

Antioxidant potential and anticancer activity of young ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) grown under different CO2 concentration


Pinto N. S., Carmo F. S., Diniz C. L., Almeida D. S., Pereira M. O., Santos-Filho S. D., Medeiros A. C. and Bernardo-Filho M.

Effects of an aqueous extract of Three Ballerina on the survival of Escherichia coli AB1157 cultures and in the action of stannous chloride


Lihui Wei, Jiumao Lin, Wei Xu, Zhenfeng Hong, Xianxiang Liu and Jun Peng

Inhibition of tumor angiogenesis by Scutellaria barbata D. Don via suppressing proliferation, migration and tube formation of endothelial cells and downregulation of the expression of VEGF-A in cancer cells


Mikdat Simsek, Metin Tansu Uguz, Mehmet Kadir Erdogan Abdurrahman Gul, Selahattin Karakoc and Metin Digrak

Selection studies on high quality walnut types and their antibacterial properties


Breno Henrique Caneguim, Juliana Mara Serpeloni, Maria Aparecida Medeiros Maciel, Ilce Mara de Syllos Cólus and Suzana de Fátima Paccola Mesquita

Croton cajucara methanolic extract reduced the DNA-damage but did not protect against the testicular alterations induced by doxorubicin


Filiz Savaroglu, Semra Ilhan and Cansu Filik-Iscen

An evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of some Turkish mosses


Nisar Ahmad, Hina Fazal, Bilal Haider Abbasi, Inayat-Ur-Rahman, Shazma Anwar, Mubarak Ali Khan, Abdul Basir, Humaira Inayat, Roshan Zameer and Shahid Akbar Khalil, Kiran Yasmin Khan

DPPH-scavenging antioxidant potential in regenerated tissues of Stevia rebaudiana, Citrus sinensis and Saccharum officinarum


Lisong Hu, Yangdong Wang, Menghao Du and Jingping Zhang

Characterization of the volatiles and active components in ethanol extracts of fruits of Litsea cubeba (Lour.) by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and gas chromatography- olfactometry (GC-O)


Wu Xing and Hu Jian

Pretreatment with astragaloside IV protects H9c2 cells against hydrogen peroxide-induced apoptosis by scavenging of reactive oxygen species and regulation of Bcl-2 and Bax expression


Mohammad A. Khiyami, Sulaiman M. Al-Fadual and Ali H. Bahklia

Polyhydroxyalkanoates production via Bacillus PCS biofilm and date palm syrup


Yuanyuan Li, Changqin Li, Qitai Xu and Wenyi Kang

Antioxidant, ?-glucosidase inhibitory activities in vitro and alloxan-induced diabetic rats’ protective effect of Indigofera stachyodes Lindl. root


Zhang Sheng-tan, Cheng Guo-hua, Lin Jing-ming, Wang Tie-shan, Zheng Ni and Wang Zhao-yu

Optimization of Jatropha curcas for total flavonoids by response surface methodology and antibacterial activity


Shao JiPing

Effect of aqueous extract of Lycium barbarum on serum CK, CK-MB activities and myocardium injury in exhausted swimming rats




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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (15), 2011


Contents:

Research Articles



Loiy Elsir Ahmed Hassan, Waleed S. Koko, El-Badri E. Osman, Mahmoud M. Dahab and Hasnah Mohd Sirat

In vitro antigiardial activity of Citrullus lanatus Var. citroides extracts and cucurbitacins isolated compounds


Rahmat Ali Khan, Muhammad Rashid Khan, Sumaira Sahreen, Shumaila Jan, Jasia Bokhari and Umbreen Rashid

Prevention of CCl4 induced adrenal oxidative stress in rat by Sonchus asper


M. N. Barakat and Heba El-Sammak

In vitro culture and plant regeneration from shoot tip and lateral bud explants of Gypsophila paniculata L.


Ismail Norsharina, Ismail Maznah, Al-Absi Aied and Al-Naqeeb Ghanya

Thymoquinone rich fraction from Nigella sativa and thymoquinone are cytotoxic towards colon and leukemic carcinoma cell lines


Bo Yang, Yiqi Wang, Jin Chen, Hongmei Lin and Rusong Zhang

The study of planting area on components of Baishouwu anti-tumor effective fraction by RP-HPLC


Zahra Zakeri, Shahrokh Izadi, Zohreh Bari, Farhang Soltani, Behzad Narouie and Mohammad Ghasemi-rad

Evaluating the effects of ginger extract on knee pain, stiffness and difficulty in patients with knee osteoarthritis


Bashir Ahmad, Ibrar khan, Shumaila Bashir, Sadiq Azam and Niaz Ali

Screening of Acacia modesta for antifungal, anti-termite, nitric oxide free radical scavenging assay and brine shrimp cytotoxic activities


Hassan Sher and Mohammed N. Alyemeni

Evaluation of anti-diabetic activity and toxic potential of Lycium shawii in animal models


Yueyue Wang, Fuyuan Jing, Shuoye Yu, Yunfei Chen, Tao Wang, Pin Liu, Guofeng Wang, Xiaofen Sun and Kexuan Tang

Co-overexpression of the HMGR and FPS genes enhances artemisinin content in Artemisia annua L.


Angélica Bautista-Cruz, María R. Arnaud-Vinas, Gabino Alberto Martínez-Gutiérrez, Patricia Soledad Sánchez-Medina and Rafael Pérez Pacheco

The traditional medicinal and food uses of four plants in Oaxaca, Mexico


Guimei Lin, Zhili Xu, Xu Zhang, Hui Gao, Ying Hou, Libo Yin, Xiaodan Zhang, Jingxian Yang and Tianzhu Jia

Epoxyaurapten inhibition of smooth muscle contraction and phosphorylation of myosin light chain by myosin light chain kinase


Abdelouahab Bouzidi, Nadia Mahdeb and Nabila Kara

Toxicity studies of alkaloids of seeds of Datura stramonium and synthesis alkaloids in male rats


A. H. A. Abdelmageed, Faridah Q. Z., Nur Amalina A. and Muhamad Yaacob

The influence of organ and post-harvest drying period on yield and chemical composition of the essential oils of Etlingera elatior (Zingiberaceae)


Lei Chen, Jianyu Su, Lin Li, Bing Li and Wang Li

A new source of natural D-borneol and its characteristic


Murat Kizaibek, Marzia Daniar, Lin Li and Halmurat Upur

Antiproliferative activity of different extracts from Daphne altaica Pall. on selected cancer cells


Amir Mohammad Daneshian Moghaddam, Jalal Shayegh, Peyman Mikaili and Jalil Dolghari Sharaf

Antimicrobial activity of essential oil extract of Ocimum basilicum L. leaves on a variety of pathogenic bacteria


Eyup Bagci, Sukru Hayta, Ayse Yazgin and Gulden Dogan

Composition of the essential oil of Teucrium parviflorum L. (Lamiaceae) from Turkey


Tao Liu, Hanjing Yan and Xiaorong Guo

Discrimination of the medicinal plant Fallopia multiflora and its adulterants by diagnostic polymerase chain reaction (PCR)


Sonia Hamlaoui-Gasmi, Meherzia Mokni, Nadia Limam, Ferid Limam, Ezzedine Aouani, Mohamed AmriI and Lamjed Marzouki

Effect of the route of garlic treatment on modulation of liver and spleen redox status in rats


Qian Yang, Wan-yu Shi and Xiu-hui Zhong

Influence of quercetin on transforming growth factor b1 in the uterus following Lps-induced abortion in pregnant mice


Onanong Kritpetcharat, Noppmats Khemtonglang, Panutas Kritpetcharat, Jureerut Daduang, Sakda Daduang, Krittika Suwanrungruang, Nat Bletter, Runglawan Sudmoon and Arunrat Chaveerach

Using DNA markers and barcoding to solve the common problem of identifying dried medicinal plants with the examples of Smilax and Cissus in Thailand


Feng-Hua Shi, Chun Sui, Cheng-Min Yang, Jian-He Wei, Yue Jin, Hong-Jiang Chen, Lu-Qi Huang, Yu-Kai Zhao, Xiang-Sheng Zhao, Xu-Dong Xu, Qing-Long Chu and Jing Yu

Development of a stable male-sterile line and its utilization in high yield hybrid of Platycodon Grandiflorum


Farooq Ahmad, Mir Ajab Khan, Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Zafar, Zafar Iqbal and Ameer Khan

Leaf epidermal anatomy as an aid to the identification of genus Setaria weeds, tribe paniceae (Poaceae), from the salt range of Pakistan


Dragica Stankovic, Borivoj Krstic, Sasa Orlovic, Goran Trivan, Leopold Pajnik Poljak and Mirjana Sijacic Nikolic

Woody plants and herbs as bioindicators of the current condition of the natural environment in Serbia


Bao-qing Wang and Zhe-xiong Jin

Agrimoniin induced SGC7901 cell apoptosis associated mitochondrial transmembrane potential and intracellular calcium concentration


M. K. Ratheesh Narayanan, N. Anilkumar, V. Balakrishnan, M. Sivadasan, H. Ahmed Alfarhan and A. A. Alatar

Wild edible plants used by the Kattunaikka, Paniya and Kuruma tribes of Wayanad District, Kerala, India


Churdsak Jaikang, Kanokporn Niwatananun, Paitoon Narongchai, Siripun Narongchai and Chaiyavat Chaiyasut

Inhibitory effect of caffeic acid and its derivatives on human liver cytochrome P450 3A4 activity


Farooq Anwar, Muhammad Sulman, Abdullah Ijaz Hussain, Nazamid Saari, Shahid Iqbal and Umer Rashid

Physicochemical composition of hydro-distilled essential oil from coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) seeds cultivated in Pakistan


M. Sulusoglu, A. Cavusoglu and S. Erkal

Arbutus unedo L. (Strawberry tree) selection in Turkey Samanli mountain locations


Naser Hosseini, Samad Nejad Ebrahimi, Peyman Salehi, Behvar Asghari and Mahmood Ahmadi

Simultaneous determination of atropine and scopolamine in different parts of Hyoscyamus arachnoideus Pojark plants by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)


Udai Pratap Singh, Sudarshan Maurya, Amitabh Singh and Mandavi Singh

Phenolic acids in some Indian cultivars of Momordica charantia and their therapeutic properties


Adekunle Odunayo Adejuwon, Mary Adejumoke Bisi–Johnson, Tolulope Mobolaji Obuotor and Oyinade Aina Agboola

Bioactive compounds and antimicrobial efficacy of the extracts of Combretum pincianum Hook


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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (3-10), 2011

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (3), 2011


Contents:

Review


Lu-E Shi, Zhi-Liang Zhang, Liang-Ying Xing, Dan-Dan Yang, Yu-Peng Guo, Xiao-Feng Guo, Li-Ming Zhao and Zhen-Xing Tang

Antioxidants extraction by supercritical CO2


Research Articles


Emiru Birhane, Ermias Aynekulu, Wolde Mekuria and Degitu Endale

Management, use and ecology of medicinal plants in the degraded dry lands of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia


Abdollah Ghasemi Pirbalouti, Abnoos Karimi, Mehdi Yousefi, Shekofeh Enteshari and Ahmad Reza Golparvar

Diversity of Thymus daenensis Celak in Central and West of Iran


Li Xiang, Ma Jianzhong, Xia Jing and Shi Yundong

Surfactant assisted ethanol extraction of dioscin


Esra Maltas, Hasibe Cingilli Vural and Salih Yildiz

Extraction of genomic DNA from polysaccharide- and phenolics-rich Ginkgo biloba



Ilesanmi Funmilayo Florence and T. l. Olawoye

A preliminary comparative phytochemistry of metabolites of orange (Citrus sinensis) and guava (Psidium guajava) mistletoes and their host plants


Riazur Rehman, M. Akram, Naveed Akhtar, Qaiser Jabeen, Tariq saeed, S. M. Ali Shah, Khalil Ahmed, Ghazala Shaheen and H. M. Asif

Zingiber officinale Roscoe (pharmacological activity)


Sammia Yasmin, Muhammad Akram Kashmiri and Kalsoom Anwar

Screening of aerial parts of Abutilon bidentatum for hepatoprotective activity in rabbits


Mohammed Safwan Ali Khan, Syed Ahmed Hussain, Abdul Manan Mat Jais, Zainul Amiruddin Zakaria and Mohib Khan

Anti-ulcer activity of Ficus religiosa stem bark ethanolic extract in rats


Edziri H., Mastouri M., Mahjoub M. A., Ammar S., Mighri Z., Gutmann L. and Aouni M.

Antiviral activity of leaves extracts of Marrubium alysson L.


DongFang Zhang, Kun Li and MeiHuan Zhou

Epimedium herb extract intervening in hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis of male rats in delayed puberty caused by diet-induced obesity


Tan Chee Leng, Ning Shu Ping, Boey Peng Lim and Chan Lai Keng

Detection of bioactive compounds from Spilanthes acmella (L.) plants and its various in vitro culture products


Salam Zein, Sanaa Awada, Samar Rachidi, Amal Hajj, Elena Krivoruschko and Hussein Kanaan

Chemical analysis of essential oil from Lebanese wild and cultivated Origanum syriacum l. (Lamiaceae) before and after flowering


Azu, O. O., Duru, F. I. O., Osinubi, A. A., Oremosu, A. A., Norohna, C. C., Okanlawon, A. O. and Elesha S. O.

Long-term treatment with Kigelia africana fruit extract ameliorates the testicular toxicity following cisplatin administration in male Sprague-Dawley rats


M. Eshrat Halim and Anoop Misra

The effects of the aqueous extract of Pterocarpus santalinus heartwood and vitamin E supplementation in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats


Zhou Zhi-Xun, Qu Yang, Dou De-Qiang, Liu Feng-Yun, Huo Yu-Shu and Jiao Fu-Bai

The ginsenoside profile of ginseng cultivated under mountainous forest


Bei-Bei Xiang, Ye-Rong Zhu, Wen-Juan Wang, Yan-Ling Bai and Yong Wang

Cell line screening of Catharanthus roseus for high yield production of ajmalicine


Gao-Qiang Liu, Guo-Pu Ren, Xiao-Ling Wang and Yan Zhao

Statistical optimization of the key medium components by response surface methodology to promote ganoderic acid formation by medicinal mushroom Ganoderma sinense in submerged culture


Balkrishna Ghimire, Bimal Kumar Ghimire and Kweon Heo

Microsporogenesis in Rauvolfia serpentina (L.) Benth ex Kurz (Apocynaceae): An evidence for dual cytokinesis in microspore mother cells


Munisamy Anbarashan, Narayanaswamy Parthasarthy and Anbarashan Padmavathy

Ethno-floristic survey in sacred groves, Pudukottai district, Tamil Nadu- India


Mohammad Khiyami, Noura AL-Faris, Basel Busaeed and Hassan Sher

Food borne pathogen contamination in minimally processed vegetable salads in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia


Christine L. Chichioco-Hernandez and Finella Marie G. Leonido

Weight-lowering effects of Caesalpinia pulcherrima, Cassia fistula and Senna alata leaf extracts


F. M. Kandemir, F. Benzer, N. C. Yildirim and N. Ozdemir

Compensatory effects of curcumin on cisplatin-induced toxicity in rabbit testis


Girijashankar V.

Micropropagation of multipurpose medicinal tree Acacia auriculiformis


M. Ibrahim Khan, Khan Usmanghani, M. Akram, Naveed Akhtar, Qaiser Jabeen, Irshad Ahmed, Pervaiz Akhtar Shah, H. M. Asif, Khalil Ahmed and S. M. Ali Shah

The clinical evaluation of herbal anti-round worm medicine: Kemol


Ghassem Habibi Bibalani, Leila Joudi and Hamideh Shadkami

Root biomass of Euphorbia seguieriana in Shanjan rangelands, East Azerbaijan, Iran



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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (4), 2011


Contents:

Review


Fawzy Elbarbry and Nehad Elrody

Potential health benefits of sulforaphane: A review of the experimental, clinical and epidemiological evidences and underlying mechanisms


Li He, Zhou Guo-ying, Zhang Huai-yun and Liu Jun-ang

Research progress on the health function of tea oil


Research Articles


Abdulazeez Mansurah

Effect of Peristrophe bicalyculata on lipid profile of P- 407-induced hyperlipidemic wistar rats


Jila Asghari, Bernd Ondruschka and Mohsen Mazaheritehrani

Extraction of bioactive chemical compounds from the medicinal Asian plants by microwave irradiation


Mashitha Pise, Jayshree Rudra, Sunita Bundale, Deovrat Begde, Nandita Nashikkar and Avinash Upadhyay

Shatavarin production from in vitro cultures of Asparagus racemosus Wild


Kamal A. Ketuly, Mahmood A. Abdulla, Hamid A. Hadi, Abdalbasit A. Mariod and Siddig Ibrahim Abdel-Wahab

Anti-ulcer activity of the 9alpha-bromo analogue of Beclomethasone dipropionate against ethanol-induced gastric mucosal injury in rats


Zhong Ming, LI Gui-Yin, Zeng Jian-Guo, Zhang Li, Huang Ke-Long, She Jin-Ming, Li Xiao and Wei Wang-Yuan

Evaluation of molluscicidal activities of benzo[c]phenanthridine alkaloids from Macleaya cordata (Willd) R. Br. on snail hosts of Schistosoma japonicum


Abdulghani Ameri, Chanchala Ghadge, Jitendra G. Vaidya and Subhash S. Deokule

Anti-Staphylococcus aureus activity of Pisolithus albus from Pune, India


N. J. Merlin and V. Parthasarathy

Antioxidant and hepatoprotective activity of chloroform and ethanol extracts of Gmelina asiatica aerial parts


Ihsan Edan Alsaimary and Thuraya J. Mezaal

Efficiency of some disinfectants and extracts of medicinal plants on bacterial pathogens isolated from post-operative wounds


Qasima Agha, Sarfraz Ahmad, Muhammad Islam, Aslam Gill and Mohammad Athar

Growth and production potential of three exotic herbs in highlands of Balochistan, Pakistan


He Fan, Dou De-Qiang, Sun Yu and Kang Ting-Guo

Determination of Arctiin in rat plasma by HPLC method and its application to pharmacokinetic studies


Moeng E. T. and Potgieter M. J.

The trade of medicinal plants by muthi shops and street vendors in the Limpopo province, South Africa


Aneta Sabovljević, Marina Soković, Jasmina Glamočlija, Ana Ćirić, Milorad Vujičić, Boris Pejin and Marko Sabovljević

Bio-activities of extracts from some axenically farmed and naturally grown bryophytes


Xiaolei Li, Dan Li, Iurii Shmidt, Vladimir V. Grishchenko and Tatiana K. Kalenik

Antioxidative properties of hydrated ethanol extracts from tartary buckwheat grains as affected by the changes of rutin and quercetin during preparations


Nagwa M. M. Shalaby, Howaida I. Abd-Alla, Hanaa H. Ahmed and Nour Basoudan

Protective effect of Citrus sinensis and Citrus aurantifolia against osteoporosis and their phytochemical constituents


Dina Atmani, M. Begona Ruiz-Larrea, José Ignacio Ruiz-Sanz, Leandro J. Lizcano, Fadil Bakkali and Djebbar Atmani

Antioxidant potential, cytotoxic activity and phenolic content of Clematis flammula leaf extracts


Hamayun Shaheen and Rizwana Aleem Qureshi

Vegetation types of Sheosar lake and surrounding landscape in Deosai plains of North Pakistan, Western Himalayas


M. K. Ratheesh Narayanan, S. Mithunlal, P. Sujanapal, N. Anil Kumar, M. Sivadasan, Ahmed H. Alfarhan and A. A. Alatar

Ethnobotanically important trees and their uses by Kattunaikka tribe in Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala, India


Tieshan Wang, Zhaoyu Wang, Lijing Chen, Shengtan Zhang and Jingming Lin

Isolation and characterization of (6S,9R) 6-hydroxy-4,4,7a-trimethyl-5,6,7,7a-tetrahydro-1-benzofuran-2(4H)-one from Scutellaria barbata


Rasul Jalili Marandi, Abbas Hassani, Youbert Ghosta, Ali Abdollahi, Alireza Pirzad and Fatemeh Sefidkon

Control of Penicillium expansum and Botrytis cinerea on pear with Thymus kotschyanus, Ocimum basilicum and Rosmarinus officinalis essential oils


Xiang-Min Tong, Junyu Zhang, Yuedi-Shen Jun-Jun Xie and Jie Jin

Sinomenine enhanced aclarubicin-induced apoptosis by blocking NF-?B pathway in HL- 60 cells


A. A. Agboke and C. O. Esimone

Antimicrobial evaluation of the interaction between methanol extract of the lichen, Ramalina farinacea (Ramalinacea) and Ampicilin against clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus


Subha Ganguly and Arun Prasad

Role of plant extracts and cow urine distillate as immunomodulators: A review



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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (5), 2011


Contents:

Review


Julius T. Mwine and Patrick Van Damme

Why do Eupyhorbiaceae tick as medicinal plants? A review of Euphorbiaceae family and its medicinal features


Mei-Liang Zhou, Hong-Li Hou, Xue-Mei Zhu, Ji-Rong Shao, Yan-Min Wu and Yi-Xiong Tang

Molecular regulation of terpenoid indole alkaloids pathway in the medicinal plant, Catharanthus roseus


L. Warjeet Singh

Traditional medicinal plants of Manipur as anti-diabetics


Research Articles


Mukesh Sharma, Vimal Mohan, Maneesha Abraham, P. J. Joshy and Drishya K. Reghuvaran

Antimicrobial screening of different extracts of South Indian medicinal plants of meliaceae


Navid Rahmani, Jahanfar Daneshian, Hossein Aliabadi Farahani and Tofigh Taherkhani

Evaluation of nitrogenous fertilizer influence on oil variations of Calendula (Calendula officinalis L.) under drought stress conditions


Emmanuel E. Essien, Sherifat O. Aboaba and Isiaka A. Ogunwande

Constituents and antimicrobial properties of the leaf essential oil of Gossypium barbadense (Linn.)


Seif Sahandi M., Sorooshzadeh A., Rezazadeh H. S. and Naghdibadi H. A.

Effect of nano silver and silver nitrate on seed yield of borage


Selima Khatun, Ugur Çakilcioglu and Narayan Chandra Chatterjee

Phytochemical constituents vis-a-vis histochemical localization of forskolin in a medicinal plant Coleus forskohlii Briq.


Sarawoot Palipoch, Wannee Jiraungkoorskul, Tawewan Tansatit, Narin Preyavichyapugdee, Wipaphorn Jaikua and Piya Kosai

Protective efficiency of Thunbergia laurifolia leaf extract against lead (II) nitrate-induced toxicity in Oreochromis niloticus


Harmanjit Kaur, Manju Anand and Dinesh Goyal

Extraction of tylophorine from in vitro raised plants of Tylophora indica


Chunling Zhou, Guanghui Gao, Xiaomian Zhou, Yu dong, Xiaohui Chen and Kaishun Bi

Simultaneous determination of five active components in traditional Chinese medicine Apocynum venetum L. by RP-HPLC–DAD


Virgilijus Zitkevicius, Alina Smalinskiene, Nijole Savickiene, Arunas Savickas, Stanislovas Ryselis, Ilona Sadauskiene, Leonid Ivanov and Vaiva Lesauskaite

Assessment of the effect of Echinacea purpurea extract on the accumulation of cadmium in liver and kidney: Apoptotic - mitotic activity of liver cells


Muhammad Asif Hanif, Masoud Yahya Al-Maskari, Awatif Al-Maskari, Ahmed Al-Shukaili, Ahmed Yahya Al-Maskari and Jamal Nasser Al-Sabahi

Essential oil composition, antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of unexplored Omani basil


Xu-mei Wang

Inter-simple sequence repeats (ISSR) molecular fingerprinting markers for authenticating the genuine species of rhubarb


Shabir Ahmad, Mohammad Arfan, Abdul Latif Khan, Riaz Ullah, Javid Hussain, Zia Muhammad, Rasool Khan, Naeem Khan and Kazuo N. Watanabe

Allelopathy of Teucrium Royleanum Wall. Ex Benth. from Pakistan


L. Lagnika, E. Anago and A. Sanni

Screening for antibacterial, antioxidant activity and toxicity of some medicinal plants used in Benin folkloric medicine


Ju-Sung Kim, Jinfeng Yang and Myong-Jo Kim

Alpha glucosidase inhibitory effect, anti-microbial activity and UPLC analysis of Rhus verniciflua under various extract conditions


Yonggang Li, Shuying Han, Hou Zhao, Yali Liu, Jinbo Fang and Guiyun Wang

Evaluation of immunologic enhancement mediated by a polysaccharide isolated from the fruit of Physalis alkekengi L. var. francheti (Mast.) Makino


Sun Hongmei

Evaluation of antioxidant activity of polysaccharides isolated from Camellia sinensis (tea) in exhausting training mice



Shu-Dong Wei, Rui-Yan Chen, Meng-Meng Liao, Nian-Wan Tu, Hai-Chao Zhou and Yi-Ming Lin

Antioxidant condensed tannins from Machilus pauhoi leaves


Liang Renjie, Zhu Ziping and Bai Yi

Isolation, chemical composition and antioxidant activities of a water-soluble polysaccharide from rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae


Vilma Armoskaite, Kristina Ramanauskiene, Audrius Maruska, Almantas Razukas, Audrone Dagilyte, Algirdas Baranauskas and Vitalis Briedis

The analysis of quality and antioxidant activity of green tea extracts


Saurabh K. Banerjee and C. G. Bonde

Total phenolic content and antioxidant activity of extracts of Bridelia Retusa Spreng Bark: Impact of dielectric constant and geographical location


Hikmat Ullah Jan, Malik Ashiq Rabbani and Zabta Khan Shinwari

Assessment of genetic diversity of indigenous turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) germplasm from Pakistan using RAPD markers


W. Y. Tong, I. Darah and Z. Latiffah

Antimicrobial activities of endophytic fungal isolates from medicinal herb Orthosiphon stamineus Benth


Yuan Yuan, Guo-jun Huang, Tian-shan Wang and Guang-ying Chen

In vitro screening of five Hainan plants of Polyalthia (Annonaceae) against human cancer cell lines with MTT assay


Behnoush Hajian, Khosro Piri, Sonbol Nazeri and Hamideh Ofoghi

Agrobacterium-mediated transfer of ß-Glucoronidase gene (gusA) to Water mint (Mentha aquatica L.)


Ozlem Terzi, Aziz Şişman, Sevgi Canbaz and Yasemin Şişman

An evaluation of spatial distribution of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever with geographical information systems (GIS), in Samsun and Amasya region


Ma Jiangwei, Qiao Zengyong and Xiang Xia

Aqueous extract of Astragalus mongholicus ameliorates high cholesterol diet induced oxidative injury in experimental rats models


Neli Lokho Pfoze, Yogendra Kumar, Berington Myrboh, Ranjan Kumar Bhagobaty and Santa Ram Joshi

In vitro antibacterial activity of alkaloid extract from stem bark of Mahonia manipurensis Takeda



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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (6), 2011


Contents:

Research Articles



L. S. Kasim, V. A. Ferro, O. A. Odukoya, G. E. Ukpo, Veronique Seidel, A. I. Gray and Roger Waigh

Evaluation of cytotoxic and antimicrobial activities of Struchium sparganophora (Linn.) Ktze Asteraceae


Jurga Bernatoniene, Ruta Masteikova, Julija Davalgiene, Rimantas Peciura, Romualda Gauryliene, Ruta Bernatoniene, Daiva Majiene, Robertas Lazauskas, Genuvaite Civinskiene, Saule Velziene, Jan Muselik and Zuzana Chalupova

Topical application of Calendula officinalis (L.): Formulation and evaluation of hydrophilic cream with antioxidant activity


Himratul-Aznita W. H., Mohd-Al-Faisal N. and Fathilah A. R.

Determination of the percentage inhibition of diameter growth (PIDG) of Piper betle crude aqueous extract against oral Candida species


Shen Shi, Zesheng Zhang, Zhengyan Zhu and Min Zhang

Protective effect of apple polyphenols on hepatocytes injury induced by carbon tetrachloride in vitro


Yan Wang, Yanchun Hu, Jianhua Wang, Zibin Liu, Guodong Yang and Guoxia Geng

Ultrasound-assisted solvent extraction of swainsonine from Oxytropis ochrocephala Bunge


K. S. Nagesh and C. Shanthamma

Micropropagation and antioxidant activity of Mollugo nudicaulis Lam.


Young Ju Bae, Phuong Thien Thuong, Nacksung Kim, Won Keun Oh, Jin Hee Kim and Junwon Lee

Inhibitory effect of ursane-type triterpenoids from Weigela subsessilis on RANKL-induced osteoclast differentiation


M. Jovančević, J. Balijagić, N. Menković, K. Šavikin, G. Zdunić, T. Janković and M. Dekić-Ivanković

Analysis of phenolic compounds in wild populations of bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) from Montenegro


Majid Taati, Masoud Alirezaei, Mohamad Hadi Moshkatalsadat, Bahram Rasoulian, Mehrnoush Moghadasi, Farzam Sheikhzadeh and Ali sokhtezari

Protective effects of Ziziphus jujuba fruit extract against ethanol-induced hippocampal oxidative stress and spatial memory impairment in rats


Emad A. Shalaby, N. F. Nasr and Samia M. El Sherief

An in vitro study of the antimicrobial and antioxidant efficacy of some nature essential oils


Dariush Ashoori Latmahalleh, Seyyed Ali Noorhosseini Niyaki and Mohammad Naghi Safarzadeh Vishekaei

Effects of plant density and planting pattern on yield and yield components of Iranian ox-tongue (Echium amoenum Fisch and Mey) in North of Iran


Saeid Abu-Romman

Comparison of methods for isolating high quality DNA from sage (Salvia officinalis)


Rosa Martha Perez Gutierrez, Efrén Garcia Baez, Ma. del Socorro López Cortez and Sofía Arellano Cárdenas

Extracts of bixa inhibit glycation and AGEs formation in vitro


Zahid Ullah, Mir Ajab Khan, Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Zafar and Kifayat Ullah

Systematic implications of foliar epidermis in andropogoneae (poaceae) from Hindukush-himalayas Pakistan


Swee Keong Yeap, Noorjahan Banu Mohamed Alitheen, Wan Yong Ho, Abdul Rahman Omar, Abdul Manaf Ali, Boon Kee Beh and Abdul Hadi Noaman Yousr

Immunomodulatory role of Rhaphidophora korthalsii methanol extract on human peripheral blood mononuclear cell proliferation, cytokine secretion and cytolytic activity


Aoxue Luo, Yijun Fan and Aoshuang Luo

In vitro free radicals scavenging activities of polysaccharide from Polygonum Multiflorum Thunb


Shixing Chen, Ming-Zhong Sun, Bo Wang, Lihong Hao, Cuili Zhang and Yi Xin

Wound healing effects of cactus extracts on second degree superficial burned mice


Ruitao Yu, Zhong Liu, Ruixue Yu, Huaigang Zhang, Yun Shao, Lijuan Mei and Yanduo Tao

A simple method for isolation and structural identification of arctigenin from Saussurea medusa Maxim. by preparation chromatography and single crystal X-ray diffraction


Hemendra S. Chouhan, Alekh N. Sahu and Sushil K. Singh

Fatty acid composition, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial activities of seed oil from Crotalaria juncea Linn.


K. M. Saradha Devi, S. Annapoorani and K. Ashokkumar

Hepatic antioxidative potential of ethyl acetate fraction of Cynodon dactylon in Balb/c mice


Fatma Mungan, Kemal Yildiz, Ersin Minareci and Murat Kiliç

A palynological study of the genus Smyrnium (Umbelliferae) from Turkey


Xueling Zheng, Benguo Liu, Limin Li and Xiaoai Zhu

Microwave-assisted extraction and antioxidant activity of total phenolic compounds from pomegranate peel


Hassan Ahmadvand, Ali Khosrowbeygi and Maryam Ghasemi

Inhibitory effect of Allium ascalonicom hydroalcoholic extract on low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation induced by CuSO4 in vitro


N. Saewan, S. Koysomboon and K. Chantrapromma

Anti-tyrosinase and anti-cancer activities of flavonoids from Blumea balsamifera DC


Ghassem Habibi Bibalani, Leila Joudi and Hamideh Shadkami-Til

Average stem biomass of Astragalus obnormalis in Shanjan rangelands, East Azerbaijan, Iran


O. M. Ameen, L. A. Usman, I. A. Oladosu, N. O. Olawore and I. A. Ogunwande

Bioactivity of rhizome essential oils from two varieties of Cyperus articulatus (L.) grown in Nigeria, using brine shrimp (Artemia salina) lethality tests


Rashmi and Akito Nagatsu

New flavonoids from seed skin of Xanthoceras sorbifolia



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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (7), 2011


Contents:

Review


Muhammad Maqbool

Mayapple: A review of the literature from a horticultural perspective


Xiaohong Liu, Jun Li, Yongsi Zhang, Linhui Li and Daowen He

Biological research advancement in Aloe


Ifeoma I. Ijeh and Chukwunonso E. C. C. Ejike

Current perspectives on the medicinal potentials of Vernonia amygdalina Del.


Research Articles



Ui Joung Youn, Ji-Eun Jang, Joo-Won Nam, Yoo Jin Lee, Young Min Son, Hyun Ji Shin, Ah-Reum Han, Jun Chang and Eun-Kyoung Seo

Anti-respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity of timosaponin A-III from the rhizomes of Anemarrhena asphodeloides


Yi-Qing Li, Hye-Jin Park, Eun-Su Han and Dong-Ki Park

Inhibitory effect on B16/F10 mouse melanoma cell and HT-29 human colon cancer cell proliferation and cordycepin content of the butanol extract of Paecilomyces militaris


Waheed Murad, Ashfaq Ahmad, Syed Abdullah Gilani and Mir Ajab Khan

Indigenous knowledge and folk use of medicinal plants by the tribal communities of Hazar Nao Forest, Malakand District, North Pakistan


Tanawan Kummalue, Penporn Sujiwattanarat and Weena Jiratchariyaku

Apoptotic inducibility of Sapindus rarax water extract on A549 human lung cancer cell line


Kantha D. Arunachalam and Subhashini S.

Preliminary phytochemical investigation and wound healing activity of Myristica andamanica leaves in Swiss albino mice


Himanshu Sharma and Ashwani Kumar

Ethnobotanical studies on medicinal plants of Rajasthan (India): A review


A. Castellar, R. F. Gagliardi and E. Mansur

In vitro propagation and establishment of callus and cell suspension cultures of Petiveria alliacea L., a valuable medicinal plant


Wei-Chun Chang, Meen-Woon Hsiao, Hsi-Chin Wu, Yin-Yi Chang, Yao-Ching Hung and Je-Chiuan Ye

The analysis of eugenol from the essential oil of Eugenia caryophyllata by HPLC and against the proliferation of cervical cancer cells


Kamran Ghasemi, Yousef Ghasemi, Abdollah Ehteshamnia, Seyed Mohammad Nabavi, Seyed Fazel Nabavi, Mohammad Ali Ebrahimzadeh and Fereshteh Pourmorad

Influence of environmental factors on antioxidant activity, phenol and flavonoids contents of walnut (Juglans regia L.) green husks


Ozougwu, Jevas C.

Anti-diabetic effects of Allium cepa (onions) aqueous extracts on alloxan-induced diabetic Rattus novergicus


Mohsen Khalili, Zahra Kiasalari, Mehrdad Roghani and Yaser Azizi

Anticonvulsant and antioxidant effect of hydro-alcoholic extract of Cyperus rotundus rhizome on pentylentetrazole-induced kindling model in male mice


Ali Ghasemzadeh, Hawa Z. E. Jaafar and Asmah Rahmat

Effects of solvent type on phenolics and flavonoids content and antioxidant activities in two varieties of young ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) extracts


J. Mwine, P. Van Damme, G. Kamoga, Kudamba, M. Nasuuna and F. Jumba

Ethnobotanical survey of pesticidal plants used in South Uganda: Case study of Masaka district


Vladimir Mihailović, Nenad Vuković, Neda Nićiforović, Slavica Solujić, Milan Mladenović, Pavle Mašković and Milan S. Stanković

Studies on the antimicrobial activity and chemical composition of the essential oils and alcoholic extracts of Gentiana asclepiadea L.


Poungrat Pakdeechote, Upa Kukongviriyapan, Warinee Berkban, Parichat Prachaney, Veerapol Kukongviriyapan and Saowanee Nakmareong

Mentha cordifolia extract inhibits the development of hypertension in L-NAME-induced hypertensive rats


Helana Naguib Michael, Reham Ezzat Shafik and George Emad Rasmy

Studies on the chemical constituents of fresh leaf of Eruca sativa extract and its biological activity as anticancer agent in vitro


O. Oyedeji, M. Oziegbe and F. O. Taiwo

Antibacterial, antifungal and phytochemical analysis of crude extracts from the leaves of Ludwigia abyssinica A. Rich. and Ludwigia decurrens Walter


Ehsan Karimi, Hawa Z. E. Jaafar and Sahida Ahmad

Phenolics and flavonoids profiling and antioxidant activity of three varieties of Malaysian indigenous medicinal herb Labisia pumila Benth.


Zhaoshuai Wang, Haixia Chen, Wenjing Zhang, Gaoshuang Lan and Likang Zhang

Comparative studies on the chemical composition and antioxidant activities of Schisandra chinensis and Schisandra sphenanthera fruits


M. Ajmal Ali, Fahad M. Al-Hemaid, Fahad Al-Qurainy, M. Tarroum and Salim Khan

Assessment of genetic diversity among Indian populations of Cuscuta reflexa based on its sequences of nrDNA


Hassan Sher, Mohammed Nasser Al-yemeni and Leonard Wijaya

Ethnobotanical and antibacterial potential of Salvadora persica l: A well known medicinal plant in Arab and Unani system of medicine


Xin-Jian Qiu, Xi Huang, Ze-Qi Chen, Ping Ren, Wei Huang, Feng Qin, Si-Hang Hu, Jun Huang, Juan He, Zhao-Qian Liu and Hong-Hao Zhou

Pharmacokinetic comparison of ferulic acid in healthy volunteers and patients with functional dyspepsia following oral administration of Chaihu-Shugan-San


Ghassem Habibi Bibalani and Fatemeh Mosazadeh-Sayadmahaleh

Recognition and consumption uses and medicinal properties of sour orange (Citrus aurantium) by rural people in East part of Gilan Province (North Iran)


Nenad Vukovic, Slobodan Sukdolak, Slavica Solujic, Vladimir Mihailovic, Milan Mladenovic, Jelica Stojanovic and Milan S. Stankovic

Chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of Teucrium arduini essential oil and cirsimarin from Montenegro


Lixia Zhang, Cong Fan, Songchen Liu, Zhenfeng Zang, Lili Jiao and Liping Zhang

Chemical composition and antitumor activity of polysaccharide from Inonotus obliquus


F. O. Ekundayo, C. A. Adeboye and E. A. Ekundayo

Antimicrobial activities and phytochemical screening of pignut (Jatrophas curcas Linn.) on some pathogenic bacteria


Thapana Kumar, Chaiyavat Chaiyasut, Wandee Rungseevijitprapa and Maitree Suttajit

Screening of steroid 5?-reductase inhibitory activity and total phenolic content of Thai plants


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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (8), 2011


Contents:

Review


Xiao Yong Ma, Li Hua Zhang, Hong Bo Shao, Gang Xu, Feng Zhang, Fu Tai Ni and M. Brestic

Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), a medicinal salt-resistant plant has high adaptability and multiple-use values


Research Articles


Abu A. H. and Uchendu C. N.

Effect of aqueous ethanolic extract of Hymenocardia acida stem bark on oestrous cycle of albino rats


G. M. Adebo and S. D. Y. Alfred

Gender dimension of herbal medicine’s knowledge and practice in Ekiti and Ondo States, Nigeria


Sayed A. El-Toumy, Enayat A. Omara, Somaia A. Nada and Jame Bermejo

Flavone C-glycosides from Montanoa bipinnatifida stems and evaluation of hepatoprotective activity of extract


Rainer W. Bussmann and Ashley Glenn

Medicinal plants used in Northern Peru for the treatment of bacterial and fungal infections and inflammation symptoms


Zuo Zhi-yu, Song Xiao-tao, Zhang Hao-peng, Shi Xue-li, Zhang Yao, Zhang Jing-wei, Xu Huan-lin, Sun Tao and Zhou Bao-kuan

Inhibitory and apoptosis-inducing effects of Lophophora williamsii extracts on HeLa cells


Taomin Huang, Nianzu Chen, Yonghua Lai, Donglei Wang, Jinchao Yan and Jifeng Gu

Rapid determination of cinnamic acid and harpagoside in a traditional chinese medicine of Scrophularia ningpoensis by microwave-assisted extraction followed by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)


Sikiru Olatunji Bode and Oluboade Oluokun Oyedapo

Biological activities and phytoconstituents of the lower plant Platycerium angolense, Welwex Hook


Woratouch Thitikornpong, Thatree Phadungcharoen and Suchada Sukrong

Pharmacognostic evaluations of Lagerstroemia speciosa leaves


Loiy Elsir Ahmed Hassan, Hasnah Mohd Sirat, Sakina M. Ahemd Yagi, Waleed S. Koko and Siddig Ibrahim Abdelwahab

In vitro antimicrobial activities of chloroformic, hexane and ethanolic extracts of Citrullus lanatus var. citroides (Wild melon)


A. R. Ghazali, R. Abdullah, N. Ramli, N. F. Rajab, M. S. Ahmad-Kamal and N. A. Yahya

Mutagenic and antimutagenic activities of Mitragyna speciosa Korth extract using Ames test


Xuemei Zou, Zhuojun Dai, Chunbang Ding, Li Zhang, Yonghong Zhou and Ruiwu Yang

Relationships among six medicinal species of Curcuma assessed by RAPD markers


J. S. Kebenei, P. K. Ndalut and A. O. Sabah

Synergism of artemisinin with abyssinone –V from Erythrina abyssinica (Lam. ex) against Plasmodium falciparum parasites: A potential anti-malarial combination therapy


Mehmet Musa Özcan and Fahad Y. AL Juhaimi

Antioxidant and antifungal activity of some aromatic plant extracts


Cecilia Promise Maliwichi-Nyirenda, Lucy Lynn Maliwichi and Miguel Franco

Medicinal uses of Berberis holstii Engl. (Berberidaceae) in Malawi, the only African endemic barberry


P. Du, B. K. Cui and Y. C. Dai

Genetic diversity of wild Auricularia polytricha in Yunnan Province of South-western China revealed by sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) analysis


Shulan Su, Tuanjie Wang, Ting Chen, Jin-ao Duan, Li Yu and Yuping Tang

Cytotoxicity activity of extracts and compounds from Commiphora myrrha resin against human gynecologic cancer cells


Xiaoli Ye, Xin Chen, Kai He, Jun Yi, Xuegang Li, Ping Li and Xiaohong Wang

Study of antihyperlipidemic effect on rabbits of 8-alkylberberine derivatives


Bey Hing Goh and Habsah Abdul Kadir

In vitro cytotoxic potential of Swietenia macrophylla King seeds against human carcinoma cell lines


Monica Danial, Chan Lai Keng, Syarifah Shahrul Rabiah Syed Alwee, Maziah Mahmood and Sreeramanan Subramaniam

Chemotaxis movement assay of Eurycoma longifolia using wild and disarmed strains of Agrobacterium rhizogenes


Zhouli Liu, Wei Chen and Xingyuan He

Cadmium-induced changes in growth and antioxidative mechanisms of a medicine plant (Lonicera japonica Thunb.)


Won-Jun Oh, Mehari Endale, Ji-Young Park, Yi-Seong Kwak, Suk Kim, Gon-Sup Kim and Man Hee Rhee

The inhibitory effect of Opuntia humifusa Raf. ethyl acetate extract on platelet aggregation


Yaling Wang, Jianlin Tang, Yong Pan and Tiande Yang

Aqueous extract of Panax notoginseng affecting blood TC, TG and ET-1 levels in postoperative rabbits


Dan Shen, Xiangmin Tong, Junyu Zhang, Panhan Zhang, Jie Jin, Xiangli Gao and Chengjian Ma

Inhibition of HSP90 by triptolide (TPL) augments Bortezomib-induced U266 cells apoptosis


Chen-Xiaoxi

In vitro and in vivo inhibitory action of a novel antibiotic on mouse hepatoma H22


Dawei Gao, Guanghua Zhu, Zhengrong Gao, Zhiwei Liu, Lixin Wang and Wei Guo

Antioxidative and hypolipidemic effects of lactic acid bacteria from pickled Chinese cabbage


J. L. Betti and S. R. Mebere Yemefa’a

An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used in the Kalamaloué National Park, Cameroon


Yu-xian Li, Wen-tao Qiao and Ke Yuan

Isolation and structural elucidation of chemical constituents of Mussaenda hainanensis Merr.


Adel Kadri, Néji Gharsallah, Mohamed Damak and Radhouane Gdoura

Chemical composition and in vitro antioxidant properties of essential oil of Ricinus communis L.


Mir Ajab Khan, Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Zafar, Shazia Sultana, Sarfaraz Khan Marwat, Shabnum Shaheen, Muhammad Khan Leghari, Gul Jan, Farooq Ahmad and Abdul Nazir

Medico-botanical and chemical standardization of pharmaceutically important plant of Tricholepis chaetolepis (Boiss) Rech. f.


Saadat Parhizkar, Latiffa A. Latiff, Sabariah A.Rahman and Mohammad A. Dollah

Preventive effect of Nigella sativa on metabolic syndrome in menopause induced rats


M. Malekzadeh, S. I. Mirmazloum, H. Rabbi Anguorani, S. N. Mortazavi and M. Panahi

The physicochemical properties and oil constituents of milk thistle (Silybum marianum Gaertn. cv. Budakalászi) under drought stress


Hamayun Shaheen, Naseer Ahmad, Naveed Alam, Khalid Ahmed and Zahid Ullah

Phytodiversity and endemic richness in high altitude Rama Valley, Western Himalayas, Northern Pakistan


H. M. Asif, M. Akram, Khan Usmanghani, Naveed Akhtar, Pervaiz A. Shah, M. Uzair, Memona Ramzan, S. M. Ali Shah and Riazur Rehman

Monograph of Apium graveolens Linn.



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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (9), 2011


Contents:

Review


Sandeep Dhankhar, S. Ruhil, M. Balhara, Seema Dhankhar and A. K. Chhillar

Aegle marmelos (Linn.) Correa: A potential source of Phytomedicine


Qaiser Jabeen and Naveed Aslam

The pharmacological activities of prunes: The dried plums


Research Articles


Fatouma M. Abdoul-Latif, Nabil Mohamed, Prosper Edou, Adwa A. Ali, Samatar O.Djama, Louis-Clément Obame, Ismael H. N. Bassolé and Mamoudou H. Dicko

Antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of essential oil and methanol extract of Matricaria chamomilla L. from Djibouti


Mahbubeh Setorki, Sedighe Asgary, Shaghayegh Haghjooyjavanmard and Bahar Nazari

Reduces cholesterol induced atherosclerotic lesions in aorta artery in hypercholesterolemic rabbits


Zeb Saddiqe, Ismat Naeem, Alya Maimoona, Asmita V. Patel and Claire Hellio

Assay of flavonoid aglycones with HPLC in four species of genus Hypericum


O. E. Adejumo, I. S. Owa-Agbanah, A. L. Kolapo and M. D. Ayoola

Phytochemical and antisickling activities of Entandrophragma utile, Chenopodium ambrosioides and Petiveria alliacea


Hongyan Zhao, Wandong Zhang, Cheng Xiao, Cheng Lu, Shaohua Xu, Xiaojun He, Xiaobin Li, Shilin Chen, Dajian Yang, Albert Sun-chi Chan and Aiping Lu

Effect of ginseng polysaccharide on TNF-? and IFN-? produced by enteric mucosal lymphocytes in collagen induced arthritic rats


Shanthy Sundaram and Shalini Purwar

Assessment of genetic diversity among fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.), using RAPD molecular markers


Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo, Romain Glele Kakai, François Houtoutou Adjallala, Akomian Fortuné Azihou, Gbelidji Fifanou Vodouhe, Tina Kyndt and Jean Thimothée Claude Codjia

Ethnic differences in use value and use patterns of the threatened multipurpose scrambling shrub (Caesalpinia bonduc L.) in Benin


Xiao-feng Jin, Jie Qian and Yan-hua Lu

The role of hepatoprotective effect of a flavonoid-rich extract of Salvia plebeia R.Br. on carbon tetrachloride-induced acute hepatic injury in mice


Masoumian M., Arbakariya A., Syahida A. and Maziah M.

Flavonoids production in Hydrocotyle bonariensis callus tissues


Esra Maltas, Nazan Dageri, Hasibe Cingilli Vural and Salih Yildiz

Biochemical and molecular analysis of soybean seed from Turkey


Vivek Kumar Gupta, Monika Gupta and Surendra Kumar Sharma

Evaluation of antioxidant potential of Ficus religiosa (Linn.) roots against carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury


Mohamed A. Dkhil, Ahmed E. Abdel Moniem, Saleh Al-Quraishy and Reda Awadallah Saleh

Antioxidant effect of purslane (Portulaca oleracea) and its mechanism of action


Rajesh kumar Sahoo, Ananya Kuanar, Raj kumar Joshi, Alok prasad Das, Sanghamitra Nayak and Enketeswara Subudhi

Anti-dermatophytic activity of eucalyptol rich turmeric somaclone oil against human pathogenic isolates


Bharat Singh, Ram Avtar Sharma, Govind Kr. Vyas and Pallavi Sharma

Estimation of phytoconstituents from Cryptostegia grandiflora (Roxb.) R. Br. in vivo and in vitro. II. Antimicrobial screening.


Hamuel James Doughari, Patrick Alois Ndakidemi, Izanne Susan Human and Spinney Benade

Curtisia dentata: Ethnopharmacological application


Germano Leao Demolin Leite, Cláudia Beatriz Oliveira Araújo, Carlos Antônio Delbem Amorim, Ernane Ronie Martins and Vinicius Abreu D’Ávila

Effect of canopy height and surface leaf on arthropods in medicinal plants


R. O. Arise, A. Igunnu and S. O. Malomo

Effect of administration of aqueous extract of Bambusa vulgaris leaves on some biochemical variables of rat liver and serum


Kiran Yasmin Khan, Mir Ajab Khan, Mushtaq Ahmad, Ghulam Mujtaba Shah, Muhammad Zafar, Rabia Niamat, Mamoona Munir, Shazia Sultana and Arshad Mehmood Abbasi

Foliar epidermal anatomy of some ethnobotanically important species of genus Ficus Linn.


Aimé Ainin Somboro, Kirti Patel, Drissa Diallo, Lassine Sidibe, Jean Claude Chalchat, Gilles Figueredo, Sylvie Ducki, Yves Troin and Pierre Chalard

An ethnobotanical and phytochemical study of the African medicinal plant Guiera senegalensis J. F. Gmel


Shruti Sancheti, Sandesh Sancheti, Mayur Bafna, Seung-Hun Lee, and Sung-Yum Seo

Persimmon leaf (Diospyros kaki), a potent ?-glucosidase inhibitor and antioxidant: Alleviation of postprandial hyperglycemia in normal and diabetic rats


Wang Mao-ye and An Li-guo

Effects of Plantago major L. seeds extract on endurance exercise capacity in mice


Wenquan Lu, Shouhong Gao, Ying Xiao, Lei Zhang, Jingxian Li and Wansheng Chen

A liquid chromatographic–tandem mass spectrometric method for the quantitation of eight components involved in lithospermic acid B biosynthesis pathway in Salvia miltiorrhiza hairy root cultures


Worapan Sitthithaworn, Theerasak Yeepoosri, Wullapa Yeepoosri, Kamol Mundee and Danai Vannavanich

The effect of bio-extract from cabbage waste on growth, yield and quality of volatile oil extracted from Mentha spicata and Mentha arvensis var. piperascens


Xiao-Qin Sun, Yang-Lian Wei, Yi-Feng Zhou, Jian-Lin Guo and Yue-Yu Hang

Development of species and region specific random amplification of polymorphic DNA- sequence characterized amplified region (RAPD-SCAR) markers for identification of the genuineness of Spica prunellae (Lamiaceae)


Meixian Xiang, Hanwen Su, Jinyue Hu and Yunjun Yan

Isolation, identification and determination of methyl caffeate, ethyl caffeate and other phenolic compounds from Polygonum amplexicaule var. sinense


Shihai Xing, Qifang Pan, Yuesheng Tian, Quan Wang, Pin Liu, Jingya Zhao, Guofeng Wang, Xiaofen Sun, and Kexuan Tang

Effect of plant growth regulator combinations on the biosynthesis of terpenoid indole alkaloids in Catharanthus roseus


Al-saffar F. J., Ganabadi S., Fakurazi S. and Yaakub H.

Zerumbone significantly improved immunoreactivity in the synovium compared to Channa striatus extract in monosodium iodoacetate (MIA)-induced knee osteoarthritis in rat


Mahesh Mysore Shivananjappa and Manoj Kumar Joshi

ZInfluence of aqueous extract of Arjuna (Terminalia arjuna) on growth and antioxidant defense system of human hepatoma cell line (HepG2)


Kathryn Y. Pernitsky, Quinn D. Mason, Bruno Cinel and Cynthia M. Ross Friedman

Discovery and partial purification of an antibiotic from lodgepole pine dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium americanum) active against Gram-positive organisms including Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)


Lin Liu and Yong-Qi Fang

Analysis of the distribution of ß-asarone in rat hippocampus, brainstem, cortex and cerebellum with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS)


Chun-Hua Zhou, Xian Li, Wang-Shu Zhang, Chong-De Sun and Kun-Song Chen

Oleanolic and ursolic acid in the fruit of Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.


Feng-Jian Yang, Mei Yang, Yu-Jie Fu, Yuan-Gang Zu, Meng Luo, Wei Wang and Cheng-Bo Gu

Preparative enrichment and separation of isoliquiritigenin from licorice extracts with macroporous resins


Yuhang Chen, Qiaosheng Guo, Li Liu, Li Liao and Zaibiao Zhu

Influence of fertilization and drought stress on the growth and production of secondary metabolites in Prunella vulgaris L.


G. O. Ajayi, J. A. Olagunju, O. Ademuyiwa and O. C.Martins

Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis and phytochemical screening of ethanolic root extract of Plumbago zeylanica, Linn.


Yanping Teng, Hongbo Guo, Zongsuo Liang, Zhiming Shu, Zhen Li and Wei Wu

Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants and their utilization in Shaanxi Province, China


M. Abdollahi, A. B. Z. Zuki, A. Rezaeizadeh, Y. M. Goh and M. M. Noordin

Effects of Momordica charantia aqueous extract on renal histopathological changes associated with streptozotocin- induced diabetes mellitus type II in neonatal rats


Yu-xian Li, Wen-tao Qiao and Ke Yuan

Isolation and structural elucidation of chemical constituents of Mussaenda hainanensis Merr.


Fahimeh Salimpour, Ali Mazooji and Samaneh Akhoondi Darzikolaei

Chemotaxonomy of six Salvia species using essential oil composition markers



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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - 5 (10), 2011


Contents:

Review


Cao H. W., Zhang H., Chen Z. B., Wu Z. J. and Cui Y. D.

Chinese traditional medicine matrine: A review of its antitumor activities



Naveed Akhtar, M. Akram, H. M. Asif, Khan Usmanghani, S. M. Ali Shah, Saeed Ahmad Rao, M. Uzair, Ghazala Shaheen and Khalil Ahmad

Gene therapy: A review article


Harpreet Sharma, Leena Parihar and Pradeep Parihar

Review on cancer and anticancerous properties of some medicinal plants


Research Articles


Daniel M. Motlhanka and Shimane W. Makhabu

Medicinal and edible wild fruit plants of Botswana as emerging new crop opportunities


A. A. Hemmati, A. Arzi, A. Adinehvand, N. E. Mostofi, A. R. Mozaffari and A. Jalali

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium L.) extract impairs the fibrogenic effect of bleomycin in rat lung


Shou-Jun Jiang, Bin Zhu, Dan-Dan Zhou, Gang-Li Wang, Ying-Xin Wang and Rui-Chao Lin

Simultaneous determination of five major active depsides in the freeze-dried Dan-Shen injection by LC


Hasan Mumivand, Mesbah Babalar, Javad Hadian and Mohammad Fakhr-Tabatabaei

Plant growth and essential oil content and composition of Satureja hortensis L. cv. Saturn in response to calcium carbonate and nitrogen application rates


S. Z. Halim, N. R. Abdullah, A. Afzan, B. A. Abdul Rashid, I. Jantan and Z. Ismail

Study of acute toxicity of Carica papaya leaf extract in Sprague Dawley rats


K. D. Tsai, B. R. Lin, D. S. Perng, J. C. Wei, Y. W. Yu and Jaw-Ming Cherng

Immunomodulatory effects of aqueous extract of Ocimum basilicum (Linn.) and some of its constituents on human immune cells


Bimal Kumar Ghimire, Eun Soo Seong, Eun Hye Kim, Amal Kumar Ghimeray, Chang Yeon Yu, Bal Krishna Ghimire and Ill Min Chung

A comparative evaluation of the antioxidant activity of some medicinal plants popularly used in Nepal


Saliza Anida Salleh, Nor Fadilah Rajab, Noor Rain Abdullah, Zakiah Ismail, Peter Mouatt, Ashley Dowell and Shamsul Muhamad

In vitro chemopreventive activity of an ethyl acetate fraction derived from hot water extract of Orthosiphon stamineus in HepG2 cells


Jagmohan S. Negi, Pramod Singh, Geeta Joshi nee Pant and M. S. M. Rawat

High performance liquid chromatographic analysis of derivatized sapogenin of Asparagus (RP-HPLC analysis of derivatized sapogenin of Asparagus)


Jacqueline Araújo Castro, Douglas de Almeida Pereira, Danilo Hottis Lyra, Bruno Portela Brasileiro and Cláudio Lúcio Fernandes Amaral

Ethnobotanical study of traditional uses of medicinal plants: The flora of caatinga in the community of Cravolândia-BA, Brazil


F. M. El-Domyati, Rania A.A. Younis, S. Edris, A. Mansour, J. Sabir and A. Bahieldin

Molecular markers associated with genetic diversity of some medicinal plants in Sinai


Nuno Rainha, Elisabete Lima, José Baptista and Carolina Rodrigues

Antioxidant properties, total phenolic, total carotenoid and chlorophyll content of anatomical parts of Hypericum foliosum


Subramanion L. Jothy, Zakaria Zuraini and Sreenivasan Sasidharan

Phytochemicals screening, DPPH free radical scavenging and xanthine oxidase inhibitiory activities of Cassia fistula seeds extract


Annabel F. V. Howard, Elizabeth A. Adongo, John Vulule and John Githure

Effects of a botanical larvicide derived from Azadirachta indica (the neem tree) on oviposition behaviour in Anopheles gambiae s.s. mosquitoes


Yingjin Zhang, Xi Huang, Ying Xie, Yang Wang, Xinjian Qiu, Rong Fan, Ping Ren, Zhaoqian Liu and Honghao Zhou

Application of ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) with photodiode array detector for the simultaneous determination of 12 chemical components of traditional Chinese Si-Jun-Zi-Tang formula


Lihui Wei, Youqin Chen, Jiumao Lin, Jinyan Zhao, Xuzheng Chen, Wei Xu, Xianxiang Liu, Thomas J. Sferra and Jun Peng

Scutellaria barbata D. Don induces apoptosis of human colon carcinoma cell through activation of the mitochondrion-dependent pathway


Farhad Khaligh, Ghorbanali Sadeghi, Ahmad Karimi and Asaad Vaziry

Evaluation of different medicinal plants blends in diets for broiler chickens


Nunthawun Uawonggul, Sompong Thammasirirak, Arunrat Chaveerach, Chattong Chuachan, Jureerut Daduang, and Sakda Daduang

Plant extract activities against the fibroblast cell lysis by honey bee venom


Luísa Custódio, Ana Luísa Escapa, Eliana Fernandes, Alba Fajardo, Rosa Aligué, Fernando Alberício, Nuno Neng, José Manuel Florencio Nogueira and Anabela Romano

In vitro cytotoxic effects and apoptosis induction by a methanol leaf extract of carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua L.)


Badrinathan S., Suneeva S. C., Shiju T. M., Girish Kumar C. P. and Pragasam V.

Exploration of a novel hydroxyl radical scavenger from Sargassum myriocystum


Daniel Dias Rufino Arcanjo, Adonai Carvalho Medeiros de Albuquerque, Bernardo Melo Neto, Lorena Citó Lopes Resende Santana, Náiguel Castelo Branco Silva, Maria Marilza Moita, Maria das Graças Freire de Medeiros, Maria José dos Santos Soares and Antônia Maria das Graças Lopes Citó

Phytochemical screening and evaluation of cytotoxic, antimicrobial and cardiovascular effects of Gomphrena globosa L. (Amaranthaceae)


Chen-Xiaoxi and Liu Wenhong

Potent antagonistic activity of newly isolated biological control Bacillus subtilis and novel antibiotic against Erysiphe graminis f.sp tritici


Badr Al- Dahmesh, Mohamed A. Dkhil and Saleh Al-Quraishy

Chili pepper-induced injury to splenic tissue of rabbit


Xie Bin, Wan Jin, Wang Wenqing, Shi Chunyang, Hou Xiaolong and Fang Jianguo

Nelumbo nucifera alkaloid inhibits 3T3-L1 preadipocyte differentiation and improves high-fat diet-induced obesity and body fat accumulation in rats


Bahram Pourghassem-Gargari, Somayeh Abedini, Hossein Babaei, Akbar Aliasgarzadeh and Parvin Pourabdollahi

Effect of supplementation with grape seed (Vitis vinifera) extract on antioxidant status and lipid peroxidation in patient with type ?? diabetes


Mehdi Ravandeh, Jafar Valizadeh, Meissam Noroozifar and Mozhgan Khorasani-Motlagh

Screening of chemical composition of essential oil, mineral elements and antioxidant activity in Pulicaria Undulata (L.) C. A. Mey from Iran


Marcel Pârvu, Alina E. Pârvu, Laurian Vlase, Oana Roşca-Casian and Ovidiu Pârvu

Antifungal properties of Allium ursinum L. ethanol extract


SN. Ouédraogo, A. Tibiri, R. W. Sawadogo, M. Lompo, A. E. Hay, J. Koudou, M. G. Dijoux and I. P. Guissou

Antioxidant anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities of aqueous extract From stem bark of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir. (Fabaceae)


Mehmet Korkmaz, Huseyin Fakir and Bilgin Guller

Consumer preferences for medicinal and aromatic plant products: Surveys of urban consumers and sellers in western mediterranean region of Turkey


Gao-Qiang Liu, Yan Zhao, Xiao-Ling Wang and Chao-Yang Zhu

Response surface methodology for optimization of polysaccharides extraction by mild alkaline hydrolysis from fruiting body of medicinal mushroom, Ganoderma lucidum


Penduka D. and AI Okoh

In-vitro antagonistic activities of crude dichloromethane extracts of Garcinia kola (Heckel) seeds against potentially pathogenic Vibrio species


Vamanu Emanuel, Vamanu Adrian, Niţă Sultana and Colceriu Svetlana

The obtaining of an antioxidant product based on Issopus officinalis freeze: Dried extract


Muhammad Ashraf, Khalil Ahmad, Irshad Ahmad, Saeed Ahmad, Shafia Arshad, Syed Muhammad Ali Shah and Faiz-ul-Hassan Nasim

Acetylcholinesterase and NADH oxidase inhibitory activity of some medicinal plants.


Muhammad Ashraf, Syed Muhammad Ali Shah, Irshad Ahmad, Saeed Ahmad, Shafia Arshad, Khalil Ahmad and Faiz-ul-Hassan Nasim

Nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolases (NTPDase) inhibitory activity of some medicinal plants.


Ritesh Kumar Choudhary, Sungrae Oh and Joongku Lee

An ethnomedicinal inventory of knotweeds of Indian Himalaya


J. R. Krishnamoorthy, S. Ranganathan, M. S. Ranjith, S. Gokulshankar and P. Sumithira

Effect of topical application of G7 in reducing histamine induced skin reactions: A preliminary study


Alireza Eslami and Behzad Kaviani

The use of geographical information system (GIS) for the extension of Echium amoenum Fisch. et Mey., a medicinal plant, in the Northern part of Iran




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