Candida Infections and Therapeutic Strategies: Mechanisms of Action for Traditional and Alternative Agents

GC de Oliveira Santos, CC Vasconcelos… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The Candida genus comprises opportunistic fungi that can become pathogenic when the
immune system of the host fails. Candida albicans is the most important and prevalent …

Effect of medicinal plants on wound healing

A Budovsky, L Yarmolinsky… - Wound Repair and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT In the United States alone, chronic wounds affect 6.5 million patients. It is
expected that the number of chronic wounds will increase worldwide due to the increase in …

African medicinal plants with wound healing properties

C Agyare, YD Boakye, EO Bekoe, A Hensel… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance Wounds of various types including injuries, cuts, pressure,
burns, diabetic, gastric and duodenal ulcers continue to have severe socio-economic impact …

Combination strategies of different antimicrobials: An efficient and alternative tool for pathogen inactivation

N Basavegowda, KH Baek - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite the discovery and development of an array of antimicrobial agents, multidrug
resistance poses a major threat to public health and progressively increases mortality …

Antimicrobial activity of selected medicinal plants from a sub-Saharan African country against bacterial pathogens from post-operative wound infections

E Owusu, MM Ahorlu, E Afutu, A Akumwena… - Medical Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: Globally, the application of medicinal plants in the management of acute and
chronic wounds can be considered a common occurrence in most traditional medicine …

Phenolic compounds and its bioavailability: In vitro bioactive compounds or health promoters?

ICFR Ferreira, N Martins, L Barros - Advances in food and nutrition …, 2017 - Elsevier
Botanical preparations present a widespread and secular history of use. In fact, natural
matrices possess a rich pool of phytochemicals, with promising biological effects. Among …

Use of medicinal plants in the process of wound healing: a literature review

M Cedillo-Cortezano, LR Martinez-Cuevas… - Pharmaceuticals, 2024 - mdpi.com
The literature on the use of medicinal plants in wound healing was comprehensively
searched to obtain and assess the data. The data were procured via clinical studies that …

Overview of the Justicia Genus: Insights into Its Chemical Diversity and Biological Potential

MRB Carneiro, LO Sallum, JLR Martins, JC Peixoto… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The genus Justicia has more than 600 species distributed in both hemispheres, in the
tropics and temperate regions, and it is used in the treatment of numerous pathologies. This …

[HTML][HTML] Medicinal plant use in Ghana: advancement and challenges

SO Mintah, MA Archer, T Asafo-Agyei, F Ayertey… - American Journal of …, 2022 - scirp.org
In Ghana, the use of medicinal plants is a known and an acceptable practice common to all
the regions and ethnic groups, with about 60% to 70% of Ghanaians depending on …

Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Justicia flava: Genome Comparative Analysis and Phylogenetic Relationships among Acanthaceae

SS Yaradua, DA Alzahrani… - BioMed Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The complete chloroplast genome of J. flava, an endangered medicinal plant in Saudi
Arabia, was sequenced and compared with cp genome of three Acanthaceae species to …