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Biological and Phytochemical Screening of Plants

N.R. Farnsworth
- 01 Mar 1966 - 
- Vol. 55, Iss: 3, pp 225-276
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This article is published in Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.The article was published on 1966-03-01. It has received 1062 citations till now.

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The value of plants used in traditional medicine for drug discovery.

Daniel S. Fabricant, +1 more
- 01 Mar 2001 - 
TL;DR: This review describes and discusses several approaches to selecting higher plants as candidates for drug development with the greatest possibility of success and identifies and discusses advantages and disadvantages of using plants as starting points for drugDevelopment, specifically those used in traditional medicine.
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Natural plant chemicals: sources of industrial and medicinal materials

Manuel F. Balandrin, +3 more
- 07 Jun 1985 - 
TL;DR: In the future, biologically active plant-derived chemicals can be expected to play an increasingly significant role in the commercial development of new products for regulating plant growth and for insect and weed control.
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Characterization of silver nanoparticles synthesized using Urtica dioica Linn. leaves and their synergistic effects with antibiotics

Kumari Jyoti, +2 more
- 01 Jul 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a facile bottom-up "green" route for the synthesis of AgNPs using aqueous leave is reported, which is similar to the one described in this paper.
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Antibacterial activity of East African medicinal plants

Werner Fabry, +2 more
- 01 Feb 1998 - 
TL;DR: It is concluded that plant extracts with low MIC and MBC values may serve as sources for compounds with therapeutic potency in East African medicinal plants.

In­vitro antioxidant and anti­inflammatory activity of methanol extract of oxalis corniculata linn

Sachin Sridhar Sakat, +2 more
TL;DR: Methanol extract of the whole plant of Oxalis corniculata Linn (Family: Oxalidaceae) was assessed for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity by using in-vitro methods.
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Vinca Alkaloids. XXI.1 The Structures of the Oncolytic Alkaloids Vinblastine (VLB) and Vincristine (VCR)2

Norbert Neuss, +6 more
- 01 Apr 1964 - 
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Pharmacological screening of some West Indian medicinal plants.

P. C. Feng, +4 more
- 12 Apr 2011 - 
TL;DR: A systematic pharmacological examination has been made of 55 Jamaican plants, most of which have a local reputation as medicinals, and no outstanding activities were observed.
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Eine systematische analyse von alkaloiden auf dünnschichtplatten

D. Waldi, +2 more
- 01 Jan 1961 - 
TL;DR: Zusammenfassung Alkaloide lassen sich am schnellsten adsorptionschromatographisch auf Dunnschichtplatten entwickeln Das Verhalten von uber 50 Alkaloiden in verschiedenen Entwicklern ermoglicht es, zwei Gruppen von Alk aloiden zu bilden.
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Phytochemical survey of Malaysian plants preliminary chemical and pharmacological screening.

Koji Nakanishi, +10 more
- 01 Jul 1965 - 
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The Effects of Mechanical Stress on the Growth of Roots

K. P. Barley
- 01 Feb 1962 - 
TL;DR: The ability of maize roots to overcome a mechanical resistance was examined using an apparatus which enabled the length of the roots to be measured as they grew, and lengths of root which had differentiated before the load was applied were compressed.