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Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Activity of a Medicinal Plant - A Biochemical Evaluation of Elsholtzia densa

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Medicinal plants are being used in traditional treatments to cure variety of diseases from thousands of years. Screening of antimicrobial and antioxidant activities performed on Elsholtzia densa crude extracts which is traditionally used as herb shows that they are endowed with potentially utilizable antimicrobial and free radical scavenging activity. Accordingly, this implies the inhibition of microbial pathogenesis and cellular oxidation that is linked to pathological incidents such as heart disease, aging and cancer. It was seen that the ethylacetate extract showed the maximum inhibitory effects against both bacterial and fungal growth. This may be due to the presence of such ingredients in the said extracts like flavonoids, terpenes, tannins, polyphenolic compounds, alkaloids, etc. The crude extracts of the plant possess radical scavenging activity as estimated by in vitro antioxidant assays like DNA damage assay, lipid peroxidation assay, DPPH assay, FTC assay, etc. Hence, Elsholtzia densa extracts could be used as an easy accessible source of natural antioxidants and antimicrobial agent.

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La doctora Rabia Hamid, PhD en Bioquímica, es profesora asistente senior en el Departamento de Bioquímica de la Universidad de Cachemira. Actualmente su investigación se centra en las actividades antimicrobianas, antioxidantes y anticancerígenas de las lectinas vegetales y también de otros metabolitos secundarios de plantas medicinales de la región de Cachemira.

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Authors Bashir Ahma Ganai, Bashir Ahmad Ganai, RABI HAMID, Rabia Hamid, Misba Khan
Publisher LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
 
Languages English, German
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 10.01.2012
 
EAN 9783847332282
ISBN 978-3-8473-3228-2
No. of pages 104
Dimensions 150 mm x 220 mm x 6 mm
Weight 174 g
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Biochemistry, biophysics

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