Bangladesh is endowed with an abundance of excellent medicinal plant resources. A well-known traditional medicinal plant H. from the Piperaceae family is rich in bioactive phytochemicals that have antidiarrheal, antimicrobial, analgesic, antioxidant, anticancer, and cytotoxic effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFType 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is usually depicted by relative insulin deficiency, raised blood glucose levels, and the predominant risk factor, insulin resistance. Hence, the development of insulin sensitizer drugs targeting PPAR-γ receptors has expanded enormous interest as an attractive choice for T2DM treatment. Thiazolidinediones (TZD) enhance insulin sensitivity either by directly functioning on gene transcription of the PPARγ receptor related to glucose homeostasis or by systemic sensitization of insulin and, therefore, improved hyperglycemia in a wide range of patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlant seeds are the resources of many different bioactive components. The chemical composition of the different crude extracts from (White pumpkin) and (Pumpkin) seeds with three different polarity-based solvents (n-hexane, n-hexane-chloroform (2:1), and methanol) was analyzed to identify the biologically active compounds. Each of the extracts was analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCoronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a severe respiratory viral disease first reported in late 2019 that has spread worldwide. Although some wealthy countries have made significant progress in detecting and containing this disease, most underdeveloped countries are still struggling to identify COVID-19 cases in large populations. With the rising number of COVID-19 cases, there are often insufficient COVID-19 diagnostic kits and related resources in such countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol
January 2018