Anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties of Vernonia arborea accelerate the healing of infected wounds in adult Zebrafish.

Background: Management of wounds and healing under impaired conditions are the major challenges faced globally by healthcare workers. Phytocompounds which are anti-microbial and capable of modulating inflammation contribute to overall wound healing and regain of the lost structure and function especially in wounds impaired with polymicrobial infection.

Methods: An acute cutaneous impaired wound model using adult zebrafish was validated to simulate mammalian wound pathophysiology.

Melianone inhibits Secreted Aspartic Proteases (SAP), a Virulence Factor During Hyphal Formation in .

Background & Objective: Candida albicans (C.-P. Robin) Berkhout, the pathogenic yeasts' ability to transform from yeast to hyphal forms in the bloodstream is essential during systemic infections.

Bioactivity of melianone against and in silico prediction of a membrane protein target.

Melianone, the protolimonoid (24, 25-epoxyflindissone), was isolated from the medicinal tree species, (L.) JACQ (Meliaceae). The compound isolated from petroleum ether leaf extracts (5.

Cloning of BBTV (Banana Bunchy Top Virus) components and screening of BBTV using functionalized gold nanoparticles.

Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) affects all varieties of banana plants and causes heavy economic loss in most of the banana cultivating areas. The BBTV genome comprises of six DNA components; in this study, we have cloned the six BBTV-DNA components from one of the BBTV-infected plants (Tri-8) and were submitted to GenBank. Analysis of the BBTV DNA-R component showed that it belonged to south Pacific group.

Characterisation and determination of in vitro antioxidant potential of betalains from Talinum triangulare (Jacq.) Willd.

Talinum triangulare (Jacq.) Willd is an erect, succulent, perennial herb belonging to the family Portulacaceae. Under extreme environmental conditions, the plant produces betalain pigments which get accumulated in the stem region.