A systematic review on COVID-19 pandemic with special emphasis on curative potentials of Nigeria based medicinal plants

JO Oladele, EI Ajayi, OM Oyeleke, OT Oladele… - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Despite the frightening mortality rate associated with COVID-19, there is no known approved
drug to effectively combat the pandemic. COVID-19 clinical manifestations include fever …

Cameroonian medicinal plants: pharmacology and derived natural products

V Kuete, T Efferth - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2010 - frontiersin.org
Many developing countries including Cameroon have mortality patterns that reflect high
levels of infectious diseases and the risk of death during pregnancy and childbirth, in …

Antioxidant activity and free radical scavenging capacity of phenolic extracts from Helicteres isora L. and Ceiba pentandra L.

N Loganayaki, P Siddhuraju, S Manian - Journal of food science and …, 2013 - Springer
In the present study, antioxidant activities of the phenolic extracts from H. isora fruits and C.
pentandra seeds were investigated by employing established in vitro systems, which …

Isolation of Antimicrobial Compounds from Guava (Psidium guajava L.) and their Structural Elucidation

H Arima, G Danno - Bioscience, biotechnology, and …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Four antibacterial compounds were isolated from leaves of guava (Psidium guajava L.), and
the structures of these compounds were established on the basis of chemical and …

Guaijaverin – a plant flavonoid as potential antiplaque agent against Streptococcus mutans

GR Prabu, A Gnanamani… - Journal of Applied …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Aims: The aim of the present study was to investigate the anti‐Streptococcus mutans activity
and the in vitro effects of subminimal inhibitory concentrations of guaijaverin isolated from …

Anti‐quorum sensing activity of Psidium guajava L. flavonoids against Chromobacterium violaceum and Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

HS Vasavi, AB Arun, PD Rekha - Microbiology and immunology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Psidium guajava L., which has been used traditionally as a medicinal plant, was explored for
anti‐quorum sensing (QS) activity. The anti‐QS activity of the flavonoid (FL) fraction of P …

Cameroonian medicinal plants: a bioactivity versus ethnobotanical survey and chemotaxonomic classification

F Ntie-Kang, LL Lifongo, LM Mbaze, N Ekwelle… - … and alternative medicine, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background In Cameroon herbs are traditionally used to meet health care needs
and plans are on the way to integrate traditional medicine in the health care system, even …

[HTML][HTML] Protective effect of stem bark of Ceiba pentandra linn. against paracetamol-induced hepatotoxicity in rats

NK Bairwa, NK Sethiya, SH Mishra - Pharmacognosy Research, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The present study reports protective activity of ethyl acetate fraction of methanol extract of
stem bark of Ceiba pentandra against paracetamol-induced liver damage in rats. The ethyl …

Systematics, phytochemistry, biological activities and health promoting effects of the plants from the subfamily bombacoideae (family Malvaceae)

G Das, HS Shin, SS Ningthoujam, AD Talukdar… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plants belonging to the subfamily Bombacoideae (family Malvaceae) consist of about 304
species, many of them having high economical and medicinal properties. In the past, this …

Bombacaceae: A phytochemical review

J Refaat, SY Desoky, MA Ramadan… - Pharmaceutical …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Context: Bombacaceae is a small family of the order Malvales and contains about 28 genera
and 200 species. Members of this family are not only showy ornamentals but they possess …