- Antimicrobial mechanism of semi-bionic extracts of three traditional medicinal plants-Rheum palmatum L., Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, and Houttuynia cordata Thunb-That can be used as antibiotic alternatives. [Journal Article]Front Vet Sci. 2022; 9:1083223.FV
- The Chinese traditional medicinal plants Rheum palmatum L., Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, and Houttuynia cordata Thunb in a ratio of 108:65:27 form a compound named Dahuang Qinyu San (DQS), which inhibits and kills Escherichia coli and Salmonella to a certain extent in fish and shrimp aquaculture environments. The active ingredients quercetin, emodin, baicalin, and aloe-emodin are obtained from…
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- Aloe vera and copaiba oleoresin-loaded chitosan films for wound dressings: microbial permeation, cytotoxicity, and in vivo proof of concept. [Journal Article]Int J Pharm. 2023 Jan 26 [Online ahead of print]IJ
- Chitosan films are commonly used for wound dressing, provided that this polymer has healing, mucoadhesiveness and antimicrobial properties. These properties can be further reinforced by the combination of chitosan with polysaccharides and glycoproteins present in aloe vera, together with copaiba oleoresin's pharmacological activity attributed to sesquiterpenes. In this work, we developed chitosan…
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- Effects of Intracanal Curcumin and Aloe vera on pH Changes in Simulated Root Surface Resorption Defects: An In vitro Study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: The current in vitro study demonstrated that aloe vera was more alkaline than curcumin; nevertheless, both groups exhibited more alkalinity than calcium hydroxide.
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- The absent of genotoxicity of Aloe vera beverages: A review of the literature. [Review]Food Chem Toxicol. 2023 Jan 23 [Online ahead of print]FC
- Aloe has a long history of topical and systemic use with testimonials of countless health benefits and is one of the most popular botanical medicines in the world for the management of a wide variety both of benign and serious ailments including irritable bowel syndromes, osteoarthritis, Type II diabetes mellitus, and viral respiratory illness. The human consumption of Aloe vera extract in bevera…
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- Protective effects of Aloe vera powder supplementation on some quantitative and qualitative characteristics of egg, histopathological changes and serum biochemistry of laying hens fed by Aflatoxin B1. [Journal Article]
- In the recent years, the use of medicinal plants to reduce the effects of mycotoxins in foods and feeds has been considered. This study was conducted to investigate the effects of Aloe vera on performance, serum biochemical parameters and liver histopathology in laying hens fed on aflatoxin B1 (AFB1)-contaminated diet. Seventy-two White Leghorns (Hy-Line W-36) were randomly allocated to four trea…
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- Medicinal plants used by rural communities in the arid zone of Viesca and Parras Coahuila in northeast Mexico. [Journal Article]
- This study is the first record of medicinal plants in the southwest of the Coahuila state, an arid zone where extreme dry conditions prevail. One hundred twenty-two residents (in sixteen communities) were interviewed. The residents were questioned with a questionnaire-guided ethnomedical survey protocol about the various plants used. Seventy-seven species of medicinal plants belonging to 36 botan…
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- Current scenario of traditional medicines in management of diabetic foot ulcers: A review. [Review]
- Diabetic foot infections and diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) cause significant suffering and are often recurring. DFU have three important pathogenic factors, namely, microangiopathy causing local tissue anoxia, neuropathy making the foot prone to injuries from trivial trauma, and local tissue hyperglycaemia favouring infection and delaying the wound healing. DFU have been the leading cause for non-tr…
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- A Comprehensive Perspective of Traditional Arabic or Islamic Medicinal Plants as an Adjuvant Therapy against COVID-19. [Review]
- COVID-19 is a pulmonary disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. More than 200 million individuals are infected by this globally. Pyrexia, coughing, shortness of breath, headaches, diarrhoea, sore throats, and body aches are among the typical symptoms of COVID-19. The virus enters into the host body by interacting with the ACE2 receptor. Despite many SARS-CoV-2 vaccines manufactured by distinct strategies b…
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- Enhanced In Vivo Wound Healing Efficacy of a Novel Piperine-Containing Bioactive Hydrogel in Excision Wound Rat Model. [Journal Article]
- These days an extensive amount of the attention of researchers is focused towards exploring bioactive compounds of natural or herbal origin for therapeutic intervention in different ailments of significant importance. One such novel bioactive compound that has a variety of biological properties, including anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities, is piperine. However, until today, piperine ha…
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- Eco-Friendly Polysaccharide-Based Synthesis of Nanostructured MgO: Application in the Removal of Cu2+ in Wastewater. [Journal Article]
- The present study described three synthesis routes using different natural polysaccharides as low-cost non-toxic fuels and complexing agents for obtaining MgO. Cassava starch, Aloe vera leaves (mainly acemannan) gel, and citric pectin powder were mixed with magnesium nitrate salt and calcined at 750 °C for 2 h. The samples were named according to the polysaccharide: cassava starch (MgO-St), citru…
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- Phytoremediation and Nurse Potential of Aloe Plants on Mine Tailings. [Journal Article]
- Mine tailings are a source of potentially toxic metals (PTMs) worldwide. Phytoremediation is a low-cost green technology that uses metal-tolerant plants to extract these contaminants and rehabilitate the soil. In mine tailing restoration efforts, it can be beneficial to introduce species that can facilitate the colonization of other plants (i.e., nurse plant syndrome). In this study, the phytorem…
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- Efficacy of Topical Treatments for the Management of Symptomatic Oral Lichen Planus: A Systematic Review. [Review]
- Oral lichen planus (OLP) is a chronic mucosal inflammatory disease associated with T-cell-mediated immunological dysfunction. Symptomatic OLP is a painful condition, and complete healing is often not achieved. The aim of this systematic review was to assess the effectiveness of topical drugs, medications, and other interventions compared to placebo or to other treatments in pain reduction and cli…
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- Aloe barbadensis Based Bioactive Edible Film Improved Lipid Stability and Microbial Quality of the Cheese. [Journal Article]
- An attempt was made to develop a bioactive edible film using carrageenan and A. vera gel for enhancing the storage quality of cheese using kalari, a popular Himalayan cheese, as a food-model system. The film was evaluated for various physicomechanical and oxidative properties (ABTS (2,2-azino-bis (3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonate)) and DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl) radical scavenging act…
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- Naturally Isolated Sesquiterpene Lactone and Hydroxyanthraquinone Induce Apoptosis in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cell Line. [Journal Article]
- Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide, especially in Asian countries. The emergence of its drug resistance and its side effects demands alternatives, to improve prognosis. Since the majority of cancer drugs are derived from natural sources, it provides a window to look for more biocompatible alternatives. In this study, two natural compounds, costunoli…
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- Aloe vera: A Sustainable Green Alternative to Exclude Antibiotics in Modern Poultry Production. [Review]
- Over the past 50 years, there has been a rapid increase in the need for poultry meat on a global scale to meet the rising demand from health, ecology, safety and equity. However, there has been a significant rise in recent years in both public demand and scientific interest for organic poultry farming, particularly when using medicinal herbs due to the rising concern of antibiotic resistance in e…
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- Antiamnesic Effects of Feralolide Isolated from Aloe vera Resin Miller against Learning Impairments Induced in Mice. [Journal Article]
- Feralolide, a dihydroisocoumarin, was isolated from the methanolic extract of resin of Aloe vera. The present study aims to investigate the in vivo ability of feralolide to ameliorate memory impairment induced by scopolamine using a battery of in vitro assays, such as antioxidant and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) inhibition, and in vivo animal models, includin…
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- LC-MS Based Phytochemical Profiling towards the Identification of Antioxidant Markers in Some Endemic Aloe Species from Mascarene Islands. [Journal Article]
- Aloe plant species have been used for centuries in traditional medicine and are reported to be an important source of natural products. However, despite the large number of species within the Aloe genus, only a few have been investigated chemotaxonomically. A Molecular Network approach was used to highlight the different chemical classes characterizing the leaves of five Aloe species: Aloe macra,…
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- Assessing Polysaccharides/Aloe Vera-Based Hydrogels for Tumor Spheroid Formation. [Journal Article]
- In vitro tumor spheroids have proven to be useful 3D tumor culture models for drug testing, and determining the molecular mechanism of tumor progression and cellular interactions. Therefore, there is a continuous search for their industrial scalability and routine preparation. Considering that hydrogels are promising systems that can favor the formation of tumor spheroids, our study aimed to inve…
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- Efficacy of Graphene-Based Nanocomposite Gels as a Promising Wound Healing Biomaterial. [Journal Article]
- The development of biocompatible nanocomposite hydrogels with effective wound healing/microbicidal properties is needed to bring out their distinguished characteristics in clinical applications. The positive interaction between graphene oxide/reduced graphene oxide (GO/rGO) and hydrogels and aloe vera gel represents a strong strategy for the advancement of therapeutic approaches for wound healing…
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- Different Treatment Modalities of Oral Lichen Planus-A Narrative Review. [Review]
- Oral lichen planus (OLP) is a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology which affects the oral mucosa. OLP varies in its clinical features from a reticular form that is, in most cases, asymptomatic, to atrophic-erosive, and is accompanied by symptoms of burning sensation and pain followed by difficulty in eating. Given the fact that OLP is a disease of unknown etiology, the treatment is sy…
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- Polysaccharides from aloe vera target the Wnt/β-catenin pathway to impact the tooth density of pulpitis rats. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: PAV could inhibit pulp inflammation and promote osteoblasts differentiation via suppressing the activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling, enhancing the dental bone density.
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- De novo biosynthesis of carminic acid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. [Journal Article]Metab Eng. 2023 Jan 10; 76:50-62.ME
- Carminic acid is a natural red dye extracted from the insect Dactylopius coccus. Due to its ideal dying effect and high safety, it is widely used in food and cosmetics industries. Previous study showed that introduction of polyketide synthase (OKS) from Aloe arborescens, cyclase (ZhuI) and aromatase (ZhuJ) from Streptomyces sp. R1128, and C-glucosyltransferase (UGT2) from D. coccus into Aspergill…
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- Polysaccharides as Green Fuels for the Synthesis of MgO: Characterization and Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activities. [Journal Article]
- The synthesis of structured MgO is reported using feedstock starch (route I), citrus pectin (route II), and Aloe vera (route III) leaf, which are suitable for use as green fuels due to their abundance, low cost, and non-toxicity. The oxides formed showed high porosity and were evaluated as antimicrobial agents. The samples were characterized by energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF), X-ray …
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- Study on the Skin Hydration and Trans Epidermal Water Loss of Aloe Viscose Seamless Knitted Fabric for Autumn and Winter. [Journal Article]
- To explore the skin moisturizing performance of aloe viscose fiber seamless knitted fabric, this experiment takes the different yarn-blending ratios of aloe viscose fiber and viscose fiber, as well as three different tissue structures as factors, establishes a sample scheme according to full factor experimental tests on skin hydration and trans epidermal water loss (TEWL) after the sample fabric …
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- Auxin and cytokinin synergism in micropropagation for mass production of Aloe vera. [Journal Article]
- Aloe vera [Aloe vera (L.) Burm. f.] is considered a valuable medicinal plant worldwide due to its remarkable beneficial effects on human health. However, challenges in A. vera propagation hinder meeting the increasing demand in the health and beauty sectors. As an alternative method, in vitro propagation is crucial for the mass production of Aloe plants, which is a rapid method as well. Therefore…
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- Protective effect of fermented aloe extract on glutamate-induced cytotoxicity in HT22 cells. [Journal Article]
- Excessive glutamate can cause oxidative stress in neuronal cells and this can significantly contribute to the etiology of neurodegenerative disease. The present study mainly aims to investigate that aloe extract (AE) and fermented aloe extract (FAE) could protect against glutamate-induced cytotoxicity by modulating oxidative stress. In this study, both AE and FAE showed potent neuroprotective act…
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- Use of medicinal plants by veterinary practitioners in Spain: A cross-sectional survey. [Journal Article]
- Medicinal plants have been used in veterinary medicine since ancient times, and they are gaining importance in Eastern Europe. The aim of this study was to conduct a survey on the use of medicinal plants in Spain. A cross-sectional study with an online questionnaire was carried out among Spanish small animal veterinarians, to evaluate the use patterns of medicinal plants and attitudes of professi…
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- Clinical efficacy of green tea, aloe vera and chlorhexidine mouthwashes in the treatment of dental biofilm induced gingivitis: A multi-arm, double-blinded, randomized controlled clinical trial. [Journal Article]Int J Dent Hyg. 2022 Dec 30 [Online ahead of print]IJ
- CONCLUSIONS: Green tea mouthwash displayed a significant reduction in plaque index, gingival index and sulcular bleeding index. 0.5% green tea catechin has equivalent anti-plaque efficacy as 0.2% chlorhexidine gluconate and can be considered a potent alternative to prevent and treat gingival diseases.
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- Fabrication and evaluation of herbal beads to slow cell ageing. [Journal Article]
- Several therapies and cosmetics are available commercially to prevent or delay cell ageing, which manifests as premature cell death and skin dullness. Use of herbal products such as Aloe vera, curcumin, vitamin C-enriched natural antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory biomolecules are potential ways to prevent or delay ageing. Eggshell membrane (ESM) is also a rich source of collagen; glycosaminoglyc…
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- Novel Nanotechnological Strategies for Skin anti-aging. [Journal Article]Curr Pharm Biotechnol. 2022 Dec 23 [Online ahead of print]CP
- CONCLUSIONS: Recent studies show a trend of anti-aging herbal active ingredients-loaded nanoparticles, enhancing the moisturizing, antioxidant, regenerating and photoprotective activity of the skin. Suitable safety/shelf-life stability of these novel formulations is key to a successful translation to the clinic/industry.
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