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Antimicrobial properties and phenolic contents of medicinal plants used by the Venda people for conditions related to venereal diseases.
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In this paper, the authors evaluated the antibacterial, antifungal, antigonococcal, HIV-type 1 reverse transcriptase (RT) and determined phenolic content of twelve medicinal plants used by the Venda people to treat venereal diseases.About:
This article is published in Journal of Ethnopharmacology.The article was published on 2011-05-17. It has received 127 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ximenia caffra & Ekebergia capensis.read more
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Traditional use of medicinal plants in south-central Zimbabwe: review and perspectives
TL;DR: Traditional medicines still play an important role in meeting basic health care of local communities in Zimbabwe, and the importance of traditional medicines in the treatment and management of human diseases and ailments in south-central Zimbabwe is illustrated.
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Phytochemical analysis and comprehensive evaluation of antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of 61 medicinal plant species
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated methanol/chloroform and aqueous extracts of 61 medicinal plants and found that the antioxidant properties of these plants varied to a great extent not only among extracts (M/C and aq.) but also between the assays used for antioxidant evaluation.
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Aloe Genus Plants: From Farm to Food Applications and Phytopharmacotherapy
Bahare Salehi,Sevil Albayrak,Hubert Antolak,Dorota Kregiel,Ewelina Pawlikowska,Mehdi Sharifi-Rad,Yadav Uprety,Patrick Valere Tsouh Fokou,Zubaida Yousef,Zainul Amiruddin Zakaria,Zainul Amiruddin Zakaria,Elena Maria Varoni,Farukh Sharopov,Natália Martins,Marcello Iriti,Javad Sharifi-Rad,Javad Sharifi-Rad +16 more
TL;DR: The recent advances in botany, phytochemical composition, ethnobotanical uses, food preservation, and the preclinical and clinical efficacy of Aloe plants are summarized to provide future directions for the industrial and medicinal use ofAloe plants.
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Antimicrobial natural product research: A review from a South African perspective for the years 2009–2016
S.F. Van Vuuren,D. Holl +1 more
TL;DR: Multidisciplinary studies have emerged as a strong support for antimicrobial investigations and show the importance of including toxicity when studying antimicrobial efficacy.
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Pharmacological properties and protein binding capacity of phenolic extracts of some Venda medicinal plants used against cough and fever
TL;DR: The result obtained goes a long way in validating the ethnobotanical usage of these medicinal plants in the treatment of cough and fever by the Venda people, however, more evidence obtainable from other assays not performed here are urgently required.
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A sensitive and quick microplate method to determine the minimal inhibitory concentration of plant extracts for bacteria
TL;DR: A micro-dilution technique was developed using 96-well microplates and tetrazolium salts to indicate bacterial growth and was useful in screening plants for antimicrobial activity and for the bioassay-guided isolation of antimicrobial compounds from plants.
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The conversion of procyanidins and prodelphinidins to cyanidin and delphinidin
TL;DR: In this article, a standard method of analysis of proanthocyanidins based on use of an n-BuOH-HCl-FeIII mixture is given, and the ratio of absorbance maxima of the cyanidin (550 nm) produced to that near 280 nm for the original procyanidin polymer solution was ∼ 3.5.
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Flavonoids, a class of natural products of high pharmacological potency
TL;DR: The few existing reports on the careful pharmacodynamic, pharmacokinetic and clinical studies which have been made have been summarized to provide a basis for a full-scale investigation of the therapeutic potential of flavonoids.
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Clinical, cellular, and molecular factors that contribute to antifungal drug resistance.
TL;DR: This review summarizes the factors that contribute to antifungal drug resistance on three levels: clinical factors that result in the inability to successfully treat refractory disease; cellular factors associated with a resistant fungal strain; and molecular factors that are ultimately responsible for the resistance phenotype in the cell.
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Antimicrobial and phytochemical studies on 45 Indian medicinal plants against multi-drug resistant human pathogens
Iqbal Ahmad,Arina Z. Beg +1 more
TL;DR: Qualitative phytochemical tests, thin layer chromatography and TLC-bioautography of certain active extracts demonstrated the presence of common phytocompounds in the plant extracts including phenols, tannins and flavonoids as major active constituents.