Cinnamon is one of the world's oldest spices that is also widely used as medicine for antimicrobe, anti-inflammation, and immune stimulant to now developed as an antidiabetic herbal medicine. Among its bioactive contents, the coumarin must have been controlled; since of its toxicities. Therefore, in this study aimed to reduce the amount of coumarin in the extracts by chloroform preextraction to dried powdered cinnamons and determine their glucose binding capacity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe estrogen hormone dependent accounts for a major cause in the incidence of women breast cancer. Thus, their receptor, especially the estrogen receptor α (ER-α), is becoming a target in endocrine treatment. These ligand-inducible nuclear functions are regulated by an array of phytochemical and synthetic compounds, such as 17 β-estradiol and tamoxifen (4-hydroxytamoxifen [4OHT]).
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October 2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has attracted worldwide attention. (Burm. f) Ness (AP) is naturally used to treat various diseases, including infectious diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Natural resources provide more efficient and safer alternatives in managing diabetes compare to the synthetic oral anti diabetes (OAD). The plants not only have hypoglycemic effect, but also prevent its complications; in which no synthetic drugs provide of both properties. Among antidiabetes plants, mahogany seed () has been used as traditional medicine in Indonesia and India, though most popular utilized as timber wood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFL. is used widely in traditional medicine for local or systemic ailments. Although studies exist on phytochemicals and potencies of Chinese and Indian cultivars of , the present study investigated antioxidant properties of wild type and its cytotoxicity against T47D cell.
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March 2019
Background: Our previous preclinical study showed that the extract mixture (EM) of Andrographis paniculata (Burm. f.) Wall.
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