Saponins are amphiphilic glycosidic secondary metabolites produced by numerous plants.
So far only few of them have been thoroughly analyzed and even less have found industrial …

Uncontrolled release of encapsulated drugs and contrast agents from biodegradable
polymer nanoparticles (NPs) is a central problem in drug delivery and bioimaging. In …

Triterpene saponins are a class of plant natural products with a wide range of bioactivities,
which makes them an interesting research subject. This work reports, for the first time, the …

The search for new materials for biomedical applications is extremely important. Here, we
present results on the performance of a silver nanoparticles delivery system using natural …

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by T-lymphocyte and eosinophil
infiltration, mucus overproduction and airway hyper-responsiveness. The present study …

The indigenous endemic plant P. angustifolium has received attention for nutraceutical and
therapeutic applications in Australia. This study investigates for the first time the nutritional …

In this work, simplified quantification of representative bioactives through thin-layer
chromatography (TLC) image was established employing state-of-the-art quantitative image …

Asparagus cochinchinensis has been used to treat various diseases including fever, cough,
kidney disease, breast cancer, inflammatory disease and brain disease, while IL-4 cytokine …

Plant extracts and/or secondary metabolites are receiving considerable attention as
therapeutic agents for treating inflammatory diseases such as periodontitis, which affects the …

The inhibitory effects of Asparagus cochinchinensis against inflammatory response induced
by lipopolysaccharide (LPS), substance P and phthalic anhydride (PA) treatment were …