Over the past 30 years, the genus Solanum has received considerable attention in chemical
and biological studies. Solanum is the largest genus in the family Solanaceae, comprising of …

The major programs in North America designed to study plants as sources of potential drugs
in which ethnomedical information is used to some extent are reviewed. Most of this work is …

Specifically written to meet the needs of the cosmetic chemist and engineer, this reference
outlines the latest technologies and issues pertinent to the development novel skin care …

Background: Dandruff is a scalp disorder affecting the male populace predominantly.
Topical agents and synthetic drugs used for dandruff treatment have specific side effects …

Eighteen crude extracts, including six hexanic, six chloroformic and six methanolic from six
different plant species used in Mexican traditional medicine for the treatment of respiratory …

Traditional medicine has made use of many different plant extracts for treatment of fungal
infections and some of these have been tested for in vitro antifungal activity. This systematic …

Two alkaloid constituents of Bocconia arborea showed considerable antimicrobial activity
against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and Candida albicans. Bioactivity-guided …

Microbial resistance to existing antimicrobial agents remains a global challenge. In recent
years, there has been a significant upsurge in the search for newer antimicrobial agents …

Using bioactivity-directed isolation procedures, five new spirostan saponins and two sterol
glycosides have been isolated from Solanum chrysotrichum leaves. The structure of these …

The antifungal and antibacterial activity of 10 crude extracts from four different species, all of
them used in Mexican folk medicine for the treatment of infectious diseases, were tested in …