GC-MS analysis, anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative properties of the aerial parts of three .

Background: Due to their variability and safety, widespread research on phytochemicals continually encourages researchers to study various plants for their potential health benefits.

Objectives: This study aims to explore the phytochemical constituents of the aerial parts of three spp.; , and existed in Egyptian nature using GC-MS analysis and studying their different biological activities in correlation to computational analysis.

Effect of Ficus sycomorus and Azadirachta indica extracts on liver state of mice infected with Schistosoma mansoni.

The potential role of hepatoprotective and antipathological effect of Ficus sycomorus and Azadirachta indica extracts was evaluated for scavenging the reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reduced the oxidative damage and pathological changes in the liver of S. mansoni infected mice. The levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), asparate aminotransferase (AST) and gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT) were evaluated in the infected mice and treated orally with each plant extract 12 weeks post infection (P.

Antioxidant and cytotoxic activity of polyphenolic compounds isolated from the leaves of Leucenia leucocephala.

Context: Cancer is a serious clinical problem to the health care system. Anticancer drugs have been extracted from plants containing phenolic compounds. Leucenia species (Fabaceae) contain a variety of bioactive components of numerous biological and pharmacological properties.

Non-phenolic antioxidant compounds from Buddleja asiatica.

The methanol extract of the leaves of Buddleja asiatica Lour. (Loganiaceae) showed antioxidant activity toward the well known in vitro antioxidant tests such as total antioxidant capacity by the phosphomolybdenum method, free radical scavenging activity by the 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl scavenging assay (DPPH assay) and hydrogen peroxide scavenging methods. Due to the high scavenging activity of the n-butanol successive fraction toward DPPH and H2O2 (SC50 = 11.

Phytochemical and molluscicidal investigations of Fagonia arabica.

The aqueous methanolic extract of the aerial parts of Fagonia arabica L. (family Zygophyllaceae) was successively fractionated using certain organic solvents. From the ethyl acetate fraction, two flavonoid glycosides were isolated and identified as kaempferol-7-O-rhamnoside and acacetin-7-O-rhamnoside.

Cytotoxic cholestane and pregnane glycosides from Tribulus macropterus.

The methanol extract of the whole parts of Tribulus macropterus Boiss. (family Zygophyllaceae) showed cytotoxic activity against a human tumour cell line (hepatocyte generation 2, HepG2) (IC50 = 2.9 microg/ml).