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X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopic analysis were used to characterise the structure and morphology of nano copper compounds (Malachite and Rouaite) synthesised with Moringa oleifera leaf extract as the reducing agent. Malachite has several peaks in its UV-vis absorption study, and the energy bandgap derived from the Taue plot was 5.32 eV for Malachite and 3.7 eV for Rouaite. Malachite and Rouaite photoluminescence spectra reveal extensive emission in the green part of the visible spectrum. With the natural dye of beetroot (Beta vulgaris) extract, the photocatalytic activity of Malachite and Rouaite was investigated, and it was discovered that the dye's absorption peak intensity decreases as the time of exposure to sunlight increases, indicating that the synthesised samples degrade. By using the agar disc diffusion method to test the antifungal activity of Malachite and Rouaite against Candida albicans, it was discovered that Rouaite has more enhanced antifungal act...

B. americana, B. cordata, B. parviflora, B. perfoliata, B. scordioides and B. sessiliflora, belonging to Buddleja Genus, are species distributed in Mexico reported in folk medicine to treat ills related to inflammatory processes. For some of them, this ethnopharmacological uses have been validated by scientific studies. Their phytochemistry has been related for their medicinal properties, being mainly iridoids, flavonoids and phenylethanoids because all of them are secondary metabolites credited with anti-inflammatory biological activity. Particularly, in folk medicine, those plants showing high concentrations of verbascoside secondary metabolite have been traditionally used to treat inflammation. In B. cordata, a cell culture has been developed since plant cell and tissue culture is a biotechnological tool that allows producing bioactive secondary metabolites in high concentrations as an alternative and sustainable form different to extraction from whole wild plants; meantime this ...

It is estimated that there will be an increase in the incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the coming decades. Thus, the pharmacological attributes of products of plant origin should be considered as an important economic and scientific strategy in the investigation of therapeutic alternatives, since their experimental validations are indispensable to substantiate the reliability of these products in the treatment of chronic diseases. Like biologically active compounds, Eucalyptol, also known as 1,8- cineole, is the major constituent of the leaf oil of eucalyptus species, such as Eucalyptus globulus and Eucalyptus tereticornis. It is a terpenoid oxide, free of steroid-like side effects. This study is based on a review of the specialised literature with purpose to discuss the biological effects of Eucalyptol in the respiratory system and its interaction with some of the most promising targets in the treatment of COPD, such as: receivers and membrane channels,...

Gongronema latifolium is a plant that has a wide range of nutritional and ethnomedical uses in different tropical African communities. Scientific reports on the chemical composition and bioactivity (anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antidiabetic, antioxidant, anticancer and allelopathic properties) of the plant material by different authors are discussed in this review. Future prospects of the plant extracts in the areas of herbal formulations, food preservation, alcoholic fermentation and beer production, drug discovery and allelopathy are also highlighted. Author   Details: Olugbenga Morebise Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, All Saints University School of Medicine, Roseau, Commonwealth of Dominica. Read full article: http://bp.bookpi.org/index.php/bpi/catalog/view/50/403/433-1 View Volume: https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/rabr/v3