Recent advancements in nanogel formulations have significantly enhanced the therapeutic efficacy of herbal medicines in wound healing applications. This systematic review explores the integration of various herbal extracts and bioactive compounds into nano gels, highlighting their improved properties and wound healing application. Key formulations include tobacco stem nanogels demonstrating stability and rapid wound contraction, neem and silk fibroin hydrogels accelerating wound regeneration, and curcumin nanosuspension-based nanogels significantly enhancing wound contraction rates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntracranial aneurysms (IAs) represent a critical health concern due to their potential to rupture, leading to severe morbidity and mortality. Small molecule inhibitors (SMIs) have emerged as promising therapeutic candidates for managing IA progression and rupture risk. The current landscape of SMIs targets various molecular pathways implicated in IA pathogenesis, including inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, and extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAccounting for the crowding effects inside a living cell is crucial to obtain a comprehensive view of the biomolecular processes and designing responsive polymer-based materials for biomedical applications. These effects have long been synonymous with the entropic volume exclusion effects. The role of soft, attractive intermolecular interactions remains elusive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is widely accepted that deciphering biomolecular structure and function requires going beyond the single-molecule or single-complex paradigm. The densely packed macromolecules, cosolutes, and metabolites in the living cell impose crowding effects on the biomolecular structure and dynamics that need to be accounted for. Molecular simulations have proven to be a powerful tool to advance the current molecular-level understanding of such a highly concentrated, complex milieu.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe intriguing role of the intracellular crowded environment in regulating protein aggregation remains elusive. The convolution of several factors such as the protein sequence-dependence, crowder's shape and size and diverse intermolecular interactions makes it complex to identify systematic trends. One of the ways to simplify the problem is to study a synthetic model for self-assembling proteins.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA relatively frequent endocrine-metabolic illness called polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is characterized by polycystic ovaries, persistent anovulation, and hyperandrogenism, which cause symptoms such as irregular menstruation, infertility, and hirsutism. PCOS is linked to obesity, insulin resistance, and increased amounts of androgens, or male hormones. The sedentary lifestyle, dietary fluctuations, inactivity, and stress are other contributing variables.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComputer-aided drug design is a powerful and promising tool for drug design and development, with a reduced cost and time. In the current study, we rationally selected a library of 34 fused imidazo[1,2-]quinoxaline derivatives and performed virtual screening, molecular docking, and molecular mechanics for a lead identification against tubulin as an anticancer molecule. The computational analysis and pharmacophoric features were represented as ; this was a potential lead against tubulin, with a maximized affinity and binding score at the colchicine-binding site of tubulin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBartogenic acid (BA), an active pentacyclic triterpenoid, has been reported for anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, anti-arthritic, anti-cancer, and anti-tumor activity. However, toxicity profiling of BA has not been reported till date. Hence, this study is designed to evaluate the single dose (12.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNaunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol
November 2021
Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol
August 2021
Bartogenic acid (BA), a natural pentacyclic triterpenoid, proved to have chemomodulatory, anticancer, antidiabetic, anti-arthritic, and anti-inflammatory activity. Based on structure-activity relationship (SAR) approaches, BA has close structural resemblance to oleanolic acid and ursolic acid. These two pentacyclic triterpenoids are well accepted with respect to their therapeutic value in various ailments including anti-cancer activity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To evaluate the pleiotropic potential and underlying mechanism of pantoprazole (PPZ) (common Proton Pump Inhibitors, PPIs) in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) -associated ischemia/reperfusion (I-R)-induced myocardial infarction which is still uncharted. Whereas some other PPIs have demonstrated their anti-diabetic, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory potential.
Materials And Methods: We evaluated the potential of coinciding treatment of PPZ (4 mg/kg/po/day for 8 weeks) in Wistar albino rats against STZ (50 mg/kg/IP) induced T2DM model and I-R provoked cardiac infarction model in diabetic and non-diabetic condition.
Epileptic seizures are characterized by imbalanced inhibition-excitation cycle that triggers biochemical alterations responsible for jeopardized neuronal integrity. Conventional antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) have been the mainstay option for treatment and control; however, symptomatic control and potential to exacerbate the seizure condition calls for viable alternative to these chemical agents. In this context, natural product-based therapies have accrued great interest in recent years due to competent disease management potential and lower associated adversities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Ethnopharmacological relevance Processed Nux vomica seed extracts and homeopathic medicinal preparations (HMPs) are widely used in traditional Indian and Chinese medicine for respiratory, digestive, neurological and behavioral disorders. Antioxidant property of Nux vomica is well known and recent investigation has highlighted the anticonvulsant potential of its homeopathic formulation.
Aim Of The Study: To explore the anticonvulsant and antiepileptogenic potential of Nux vomica HMPs (6CH, 12CH and 30CH potency) in pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) induced acute and chronic experimental seizure models in mice and investigate their effects on cognition, memory, motor activity and oxidative stress markers in kindled animals.
Wound is the major health problem associated with skin damages and arises because of various types of topical injuries. Furthermore, wounds in patients with diabetes take a relatively long time to heal. Currently, herbal medicines have been extensively used for wound care and management.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have wide pleiotropic action in addition to their therapeutic potential in gastroesophageal reflux diseases. Conversely, recent reports revealed a significant incidence of toxic events of PPIs including nephritis, osteoporosis, and cardiac damage. Thus, the study was designed to reconcile the deceptive contraindications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Biosimiliar, a copy of reference biological product, is making a buzz across the globe for its upper edge therapeutic usage. According to the market research report published by P&S Intelligence, biosimilars market is expected to generate $26.7 billion revenue by 2024, advancing at a CAGR of 29.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeurodegeneration is a complex neurological phenomenon characterized by disturbed coherence in neuronal efflux. Progressive neuronal loss and brain damage due to various age-related pathological hallmarks perturb the behavioral balance and quality of life. Sirtuins have been widely investigated for their neuroprotective role, with SIRT1 being the most contemplated member of the family.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, implant, reagent, a component part or accessory which Intended for use in diagnosis of disease or other condition, or in the cure, mitigation and treatment or prevention of disease is called medical devices. Medical devices under new rule classified as Class A (low risk), Class B (low moderate risk), Class C (moderate high risk), and Class D (high risk) commemorating the notification of January 31, 2017 of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare which is conformity with Global Harmonisation Task Force framework. As per make in India program, the industry of medical devices is USD 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Adv Pharm Technol Res
January 2020
Self-assembly is an unparalleled step in designing macromolecular analogs of nature's simple amphiphiles. Tailoring hydrogel systems - a material with ample potential for wound healing applications - to simultaneously alleviate infection and prompt wound closure is vastly appealing. The poly (DEAEMA-co-AAc) (PDEA) is examined with a cutaneous excisional wound model alterations in wound size, and histological assessments revealed a higher wound healing rate, including dermis proliferation, re-epithelialization, reduced scar formation, and anti-inflammatory properties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFixed-dose combinations (FDCs) dominating the global market because of better compliance. However, irrational combination can lead to human-made menace in terms of development of resistance, tolerance, drug abuse, and economy encumbrance. The US Food and Drug Administration defines a combination product as "a product composed of any combination of a drug and a device or a biological product and a device or a drug and a biological product or a drug, device, and a biological product.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present investigation emphasizes the pharmacognostic and phytochemical screening of and further evaluates the extracts of this plant for toxicological profile and anti-bacterial potential based on / assays. Microscopy, powder characteristics of the leaf material, and physicochemical and phytochemical screening were assessed for pharmacognostic evaluation. Dry leaves of were extracted using different solvents (methanol, ethyl acetate, and hexane), and the extracts obtained were further investigated for / toxicological study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Myocardial infarction (MI) is a solitary fatal condition with towering prevalence of mortality worldwide. Our previous study reports that low-dose copper nanoparticles (CuNP) can halt the progression of diabetes-induced cardiotoxicity as copper has anti-inflammatory, anti-proliferative and anti-oxidant potential. In addition, exercise training has also been considered a hallmark for cardiac health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Drinking water from copper vessels and aerobic exercise have been the known facts for cardioprotection. Our previous report explored the significant cardioprotective potential of copper and exercise training by increasing phosphorylation of GSK-3β and anti-oxidant potential.
Objective: Present study focuses the therapeutic potential of CuNP and exercise training through their molecular interaction with GSK-3β, inflammatory cytokinin, oxidative stress and necrosis.