Over the past few years, considerable attention has been focused on carrageenan based bionanocomp... more Over the past few years, considerable attention has been focused on carrageenan based bionanocomposites due to their multifaceted properties like biodegradability, biocompatibility, and nontoxicity. Moreover, these composites can be tailored according to the desired purpose by using different nanofillers. The role of ferromagnetic nanoparticles in drug delivery is also discussed here in detail. Moreover, this article also presents a short review of recent research on the different types of the carrageenan based bionanocomposites and applications.
Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are considered to be the foremost basis of mortality an... more Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are considered to be the foremost basis of mortality and transience in the developing world. CVD risk factors such as diabetes, asthma, anemia, smoking, obesity and the metabolic syndrome, may reverse downward trends in CVD mortality. Methodology:A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted at ATH on patients with CVD. Cross sectional data using constructed Performa which contains essential parameters that are specifically correlated with cardiovascular diseases. Survey based data was collected on daily basis Results:Randomized conventional sampling of 2580 patients was done. Among 2580 Individuals 301 was positive for CVD. Out of positive patients (51.82%) were male and (48.17%) were female. In age from 40 to 70 years, CVD risk factor is relatively high for both male and female individuals. For high blood pressure, age groups (IV, V and VI) were at high risk of CVD i-e 18%, 27% and 25% respectively. Prevalence rate of 31.69% was found among positive samples size of diabetes patients for CVD risk while Asthma and Anemia patients shows 2.92% and 12.95% prevalence of CVD. Cardiovascular diseases patients 51.16% of were smokers in which 14.95% were female whereas 28.25% of the total positives samples were obsessed CVD patients. Conclusion:Patients with CVD are often subjected to huge risk of mortality because of various diseases, smoking, obesity etc. Impediment is one of the most important prevention with the prescribed drugs to improve the quality of life as well as compliance of the patients. Hypertension, adiposity; hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, nicotine use and stress are likewise essential chances and exist in the advancement of CVD.
The medicinal plants Melilotus indicus and Spinacia oleracea were collected from herb dealer in o... more The medicinal plants Melilotus indicus and Spinacia oleracea were collected from herb dealer in order to check antibacterial activity in opposition to different Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial strains. These medically important bacterial strains including Pseudomonas aeroginosa, Bacillus subtilis, Microccocus luteus and Escherichia coli. Well diffusion method was used to check antibacterial activity of these plants. Spanacia oleracea showed better antibacterial activity against these bacterial strains but Melilotus indicus did not illustrate any results. The collected ethonomedicinal plants are used in folk medicines in treatment of osteoporosis, high blood pressure, cancer, and kidney and liver complaints.
SUMMARY: The antibacterial activity of aqueous and ethanol extracts of Balsamodendron myrrha and ... more SUMMARY: The antibacterial activity of aqueous and ethanol extracts of Balsamodendron myrrha and Viola oderata were evaluated for anti-microbial activity using the agar well diffusion method against six pathogenic bacteria (Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas, Salmonella typhi, Stapylococcus epidermidis and Enterococcus). These plants are commonly used in folk medicine to treat infections of microbial origin. The patterns of inhibition varied with the extracts, the solvent used for extraction and the organisms tested. The studies revealed that the activity was in decreasing order of ethanol extracts>cold-water extract>hot-water extract. The preliminary screening experiment revealed that the ethanol extracts of Balsamodendron myrrha and Viola oderata exhibited a higher antimicrobial activity than the cold and hot water extracts. The most susceptible bacterium was Escherichia coli.
Over the past few years, considerable attention has been focused on carrageenan based bionanocomp... more Over the past few years, considerable attention has been focused on carrageenan based bionanocomposites due to their multifaceted properties like biodegradability, biocompatibility, and nontoxicity. Moreover, these composites can be tailored according to the desired purpose by using different nanofillers. The role of ferromagnetic nanoparticles in drug delivery is also discussed here in detail. Moreover, this article also presents a short review of recent research on the different types of the carrageenan based bionanocomposites and applications.
Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are considered to be the foremost basis of mortality an... more Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are considered to be the foremost basis of mortality and transience in the developing world. CVD risk factors such as diabetes, asthma, anemia, smoking, obesity and the metabolic syndrome, may reverse downward trends in CVD mortality. Methodology:A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted at ATH on patients with CVD. Cross sectional data using constructed Performa which contains essential parameters that are specifically correlated with cardiovascular diseases. Survey based data was collected on daily basis Results:Randomized conventional sampling of 2580 patients was done. Among 2580 Individuals 301 was positive for CVD. Out of positive patients (51.82%) were male and (48.17%) were female. In age from 40 to 70 years, CVD risk factor is relatively high for both male and female individuals. For high blood pressure, age groups (IV, V and VI) were at high risk of CVD i-e 18%, 27% and 25% respectively. Prevalence rate of 31.69% was found among positive samples size of diabetes patients for CVD risk while Asthma and Anemia patients shows 2.92% and 12.95% prevalence of CVD. Cardiovascular diseases patients 51.16% of were smokers in which 14.95% were female whereas 28.25% of the total positives samples were obsessed CVD patients. Conclusion:Patients with CVD are often subjected to huge risk of mortality because of various diseases, smoking, obesity etc. Impediment is one of the most important prevention with the prescribed drugs to improve the quality of life as well as compliance of the patients. Hypertension, adiposity; hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, nicotine use and stress are likewise essential chances and exist in the advancement of CVD.
The medicinal plants Melilotus indicus and Spinacia oleracea were collected from herb dealer in o... more The medicinal plants Melilotus indicus and Spinacia oleracea were collected from herb dealer in order to check antibacterial activity in opposition to different Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial strains. These medically important bacterial strains including Pseudomonas aeroginosa, Bacillus subtilis, Microccocus luteus and Escherichia coli. Well diffusion method was used to check antibacterial activity of these plants. Spanacia oleracea showed better antibacterial activity against these bacterial strains but Melilotus indicus did not illustrate any results. The collected ethonomedicinal plants are used in folk medicines in treatment of osteoporosis, high blood pressure, cancer, and kidney and liver complaints.
SUMMARY: The antibacterial activity of aqueous and ethanol extracts of Balsamodendron myrrha and ... more SUMMARY: The antibacterial activity of aqueous and ethanol extracts of Balsamodendron myrrha and Viola oderata were evaluated for anti-microbial activity using the agar well diffusion method against six pathogenic bacteria (Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas, Salmonella typhi, Stapylococcus epidermidis and Enterococcus). These plants are commonly used in folk medicine to treat infections of microbial origin. The patterns of inhibition varied with the extracts, the solvent used for extraction and the organisms tested. The studies revealed that the activity was in decreasing order of ethanol extracts>cold-water extract>hot-water extract. The preliminary screening experiment revealed that the ethanol extracts of Balsamodendron myrrha and Viola oderata exhibited a higher antimicrobial activity than the cold and hot water extracts. The most susceptible bacterium was Escherichia coli.
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