Lutfun Nahar

TL;DR: The resazurin assay utilising microtitre-plate has been modified to achieve more accuracy in the determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration values of natural products, including crude extracts, chromatographic fractions or purified compounds against various bacterial strains.

TL;DR: From a consideration of ethnobotanical and taxonomic information, seeds of 45 Scottish plant species encompassing 23 different families were obtained from authentic seed suppliers and the n‐hexane, dichloromethane and methanol extracts were assessed, both qualitatively and quantitatively, for free radical scavenging activity in the DPPH assay.

TL;DR: This review evaluates the importance of the genus Angelica in relation to its traditional medicinal uses, alternative medicinal uses in the modern society and potential for drug development, and summarises results of various scientific studies on Angelica species or Angelica-containing preparations for their bioactivities.

TL;DR: Based on ethnopharmacological and taxonomic information, seeds of 21 Scottish plant species from 14 different families were obtained from authentic seed suppliers and n-hexane, dichloromethane and methanol extracts were assessed for antibacterial activity against 11 pathogenic bacterial species.

TL;DR: TheHypoglycemic properties of macroalgae-derived bioactive compounds such as polyphenol, bromophenols, sulfated polysaccharides, fucoidan, fucosterol, phlorotannins, carotenoid pigments and fucoxanthin with their probable mechanisms behind hypoglycemic activity are explored.