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... Chitosan is a natural polymer that can be used as wound dressing material; however, it has rigid and brittle properties. A combination of chitosan and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) is expected to allow improvement of chitosan’s mechanical properties. Green grass jelly leaf (Cyclea barbarta M.) and moringa leaf (Moringa oleifera L.) have antibacterial compounds that can be added to the chitosan-PVA compo ...
... In Menispermaceae, stamens can occur as free stamens or synandrous stamens, but few studies have investigated the development of these different types. Androecium development in Sinomenium acutum, Stephania japonica and Cyclea racemosa was observed in detail by scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy. The results showed the following: (1) The development and morphology of stamens differe ...
... Cyclea peltata Hook f. Thoms. is a medicinal herb that produces tetrandrine as a potent bioactive molecule. The present study was aimed at developing a suspension culture method to identify a suitable alternative for the production of tetrandrine in C. peltata stem-derived callus. The callus was induced from stem explants of C. peltata on MS medium supplemented with α-naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) ...
Cyclea; electric potential difference; lighting; solar cells
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... In this Part 2 of this series of articles, the application of the iterative cycles CycleA and CycleB proposed in Part 1, to determine the solar cell parameters (the shunt resistance (Rsh), the series resistance (Rs), the ideality factor (n), the light current (Ilig), and the saturation current (Isat)) on experimental current voltage (IV) and current density (JV) curves, is given. Several number of ...
... Cyclea peltata is one of the herbs mentioned in ancient scriptures of Ayurveda and is used in different types of Ayurvedic gritham preparations. Moreover, in traditional/tribal medicine C. peltata is used as digestive, anti-inflammatory, diuretic and to treat jaundice, digestive disorders, etc.Activity guided fractionation of C. peltata and in correlation with the levels of bioactive compound tetr ...
... The plant beneficial mechanisms shown by rhizobacteria are remarkable in its nature, distribution and execution. In the study, 11 rhizospheric bacterial isolates of Cyclea peltata (Indian moon-seed) were found to have strong inhibitory activity against Pythium myriotylum and Rhizoctonia solani. Among these, two Pseudomonas spp. (K6 and DN18) were identified to have a differential distribution of a ...
Cyclea; amines; cost effectiveness; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; high performance liquid chromatography; methanol; roots
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... Reverse phase column chromatography technique was employed to isolate tetrandrine from methanolic extract of Cyclea peltata roots. Tetrandrine was efficiently isolated using 0.02% aqueous diethylamine and methanol (25:75, v/v) as mobile phase with a purity of 98.63%. Compound characterisation was achieved using high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with electrospray ionization mass spectr ...
Cyclea; alkaloids; antineoplastic activity; apoptosis; breasts; caspase-8; cell membranes; cytoplasm; cytotoxicity; death domain receptors; in vitro studies; inhibitory concentration 50; neoplasm cells; oxygen; pancreatic neoplasms; reactive oxygen species
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... Tetrandrine is a bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloid known to exhibit anticancer activity against different cancers. In the present study, the cytotoxic effect of tetrandrine isolated from Cyclea peltata on pancreatic (PANC-1) and breast (MDA-MB-231) cancer cells was evaluated in vitro with an attempt to understand the role of tetrandrine on the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and caspase a ...
... Cyclea gracillima Diels is a Taiwanese native medicinal herb. However, there are currently few relevant reports on its biochemical activity. In this study, the antioxidant attributes of the ethanol and hot water extracts of this herb were assayed using in vitro models, including the following: 2,2-diphenyl-1-(2,4,6-trinitrophenyl)-hydrazyl radical scavenging, Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity ...
Cyclea; chemical structure; glucosides; lignans; spectral analysis
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... A new lignan glucoside 1, along with two known lignans (2, 3), was isolated from Cyclea racemosa Oliv. Its structure was elucidated as (+)-7′-methoxylariciresinol 4-O-β-D-glucopyranoside on the basis of extensive spectroscopic analyses. ...
... This report provides morphological descriptions of powdery mildews found on Malvaceae, Menispermaceae, Moraceae, Nyctaginaceae, Polygonaceae, Solanaceae and Urticaceae and five specimens are identified with ITS rDNA sequences. These include a new species on Boehmeria siamensis (Urticaceae); Pseudoidium schmiedeknechtii on Schoutenia glomerata, Hibiscus floccosus and Urena lobata; Erysiphe kydiae-c ...
... The water extract of Green Jelly leaves (GJL) obtained by crushing the leaves in water (1:40) was capable of forming a gel at room temperature. The composition of GJL consisted mainly of carbohydrate (∼70w/w), protein (∼13% w/w) and minerals (∼6% w/w). The mineral portion consisted of mainly calcium (∼1.2% w/w), zinc (∼0.12% w/w) and magnesium (∼0.11% w/w). The isolated polysaccharide fraction (∼4 ...
... The gel formation behaviour of green jelly leaf (GJL) pectins isolated by using water extraction method with extraction temperatures of 45, 65, 85 and 95 °C was investigated. The isolated pectins were also analysed for the yield, physicochemical and functional properties. The yield, molecular weight (Mw) and galacturonic acid content varied from ∼10 to 13% w/w, 3 × 10⁵ to 12 × 10⁵ g/mol and ∼75–86 ...
... Pectin isolated from Cyclea barbata Miers leaf (green jelly leaf) forms a gel at a low pH (∼≤3) in the absence of co-solutes and divalent ions at room temperature. These gelling properties are important and particularly useful in the development of low-sugar food systems. In this study, rheological measurements were employed to determine the effect of varying different levels of pH, pectin, urea a ...
... The callus derived from nodal explant of Cyclea peltata on Murashige Skoog medium supplemented with α-naphthalene acetic acid + benzyl amino purine (5.4 μM + 0.44 μM) was used for indirect shoot proliferation. The stem derived calli of 50–60 d old were inoculated to half strength and full strength Murashige Skoog media with different growth regulators at varying concentrations. The callus, upon su ...
... • Premise of the study: Fossil leaves of Menispermaceae were previously described from the Paleocene of Colombia. Because of strong homoplasy of leaf characters, the fossils could not be placed more specifically within recognized clades, and additional data were needed to specify intrafamilial and paleogeographic relationships during the Paleocene. • METHODS: Fossil endocarps of Menispermaceae wer ...
... An efficient and quick in vitro propagation of Cyclea peltata by repeated subculture of nodal cuttings has been standardized. The nodal cuttings were cultured on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with various concentrations (0.5-7mg/l) of 6-benzylaminopurine (BA) or kinetin (Kn) alone or in combination with indole-3-acetic acid (IAA; 0.5mg/l) for culture initiation. Optimum response in ...
... Ethnopharmacological relevance: Cyclea peltata (Lam.) Hook. f. '' Thoms. (Menispermaceae), locally called 'Padathaali/Padakizhangu' is used in Ayurvedic medicine to treat peptic ulcer. Aim of the study: To evaluate the gastric antisecretory and antiulcer activity of Cyclea peltata. Materials and methods: The ethanolic extract of Cyclea peltata root was used to evaluate its gastric antisecretory an ...
... Gel extracted from Khruea-ma-noi leaves, which are widely consumed by villagers in Northeast Thailand, has a unique characteristic that could be used for food and nutritional applications, such as in therapeutic diets and in the food industry. Since little is known scientifically about this plant, this study identified the plant's scientific name and determined the chemical composition of the Khru ...