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Cancer is the major challenge across world and the adenocarcinoma of prostate malignancy is the second most prevalent male cancer. Various medicinal plants are used for the treatment and management of various cancers. Matricaria chamomilla L., is one of the extensively used Unani medicament for the treatment of various type of diseases. In the current study we evaluated most of the parameters prescribed for drug standardization using pharmacognostic approaches. The 2,2 Diphenyl-1-picryl hydrazyl (DPPH) method was utilized for the analysis of antioxidant activity in the flower extracts of M. chamomilla. Moreover, we analyzed the antioxidant and cytotoxic activity of M. chamomilla (Gul-e Babuna) through in-vitro method. DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picryl-hydrazl-hydrate) method was utilized for the analysis of antioxidant activity in the flower extracts of M. chamomilla. CFU and wound healing assay were performed to determine the anti-cancer activity. The results demonstrated that various extracts of M. chamomilla fulfilled most of the parameters of drug standardization and contained good antioxidant and anticancer activities. The ethyl acetate showed higher anticancer activity followed by aqueous, hydroalcoholic, petroleum benzene and methanol by CFU method. Also, the wound healing assay demonstrated that ethyl acetate extract has more significant effect followed by methanol and petroleum benzene extract on prostate cancer cell line (C4-2). The current study concluded that the extract of M. chamomilla flowers could act as good source of natural anti-cancer compounds.
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Podophyllum hexandrum Royle [=Sinopodophyllum hexandrum (Royle) T.S. Ying] is an important, endemic medicinal plant species of Himalaya. It is used in Unani System of Medicine under the name of 'Papra'. The drug was not mentioned in previous literatures, but the first time it introduced in Unani Medicine by a great scholar Hakim Najmul Ghani. He has mentioned its uses and benefits in his classical book Khazainul Advia. In Unani Medicine the plant species has been used to treat various ailments like constipation, fever, jaundice, liver disorders, syphilis, diseases of lymph glands etc. In Kashmir Himalaya it is used to treat various diseases by local medicinemen, but now it is listed in rare drugs. Various pharmacological studies have been done such as antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antifungal, radio-protective etc., recently it has also been reported that podophyllotoxin or podophyllin can be used to treat some forms of cancers also.
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Plantas Medicinales , Podophyllum , Medicina Unani , PodofilotoxinaRESUMEN
Prolidase deficiency (PD) is a rare inborn disorder of collagen metabolism characterized by chronic recurrent cutaneous ulceration. We report a novel 3 bp insertion in the 12th exon of the PEPD gene in two Kashmiri siblings with prolidase deficiency phenotype. This mutation results in addition of an extra alanine residue at the amino-acid position number 304 of prolidase peptide. The structural analysis showed that this Ala insertion is located at the helix (a.a. 300-320), which contains several important hydrogen bonds between residues essential for structural folding for the enzyme activity. In silico analysis suggests that this insertion mutation might distort or bend the helical feature to affect the hydrogen-bond network between residues of neighboring secondary structures and deform the metal-binding geometry of the enzyme. Although approximately 70 PEPD gene mutations and polymorphisms have been reported in various ethnic groups, we however report, for the first time, the identification of insertion mutation in human the PEPD gene.