Antiglycation, antioxidant and toxicological potential of polyphenol extracts of alligator pepper, ginger and nutmeg from Nigeria

Medicinal plants used as excipients in the history in Ghanaian herbal medicine

“…Pharmacological activities of seeds of A. melegueta reported in the literature are: analgesic (Umukoro and Ashorobi, 2007b), repellant (Ukeh et al, 2009), gastro-protective (Rafatullah et al, 1995), central nervous system depressant activity (Umukoro and Ashorobi, 2005b), sexual stimulant (Kamtchouing et al, 2002;Mbongue et al, 2012), antibacterial (Doherty et al, 2010;Konning et al, 2004;Sonibare et al, 2011), antifungal (Konning et al, 2004), anti-estrogenic (El-Halawany et al, 2011, reducing cell proliferation and cell growth of tumor cells (Gismondi et al, 2013), antioxidant (Adefegha and Oboh, 2012a;Kazeem et al, 2012), weight gain reduction (Inegbenebor et al, 2009;Sugita et al, 2013;Suzuki et al, 2009), efflux pump inhibition in mycobacteria (Groblacher et al, 2012), antimycobacterial (Galal, 1996) antidiabetic (Ilic et al, 2010), inhibition of CYP3A4, 3A5 and 3A7 (Agbonon et al, 2010), anti-hypertensive (Lawal et al, 2007) and antidiarrheal (Umukoro and Ashorobi, 2005a).…”

Biological Activities of three Nigerian Spices - <i>Laurus nobilis</i> Linn, <i>Murraya koenigii</i> (L) Spreng and <i>Thymus vulgaris</i> Linn

“…Consequent upon the growing calls for antidiabetic dietary agents and as a follow-up to our previous report [10], the aim of this study was to evaluate the antiglycation and antioxidant properties of polyphenolic extracts from these aforementioned spices, as well as to determine their cytotoxic and phytotoxic potential.…”

Impact of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 in the Activity of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase in Human Erythrocyte

“…There are 2 styles of polygenic disease Mellitus: kind one polygenic disease, that is understood as insulindependent polygenic disease, and kind two DM, that is understood as insulin-independent polygenic disease. To decrease the risk of polygenic disease, glucose level within the blood should be controlled [22]. The sickness is treated by dynamical way habits, and patients should engage in physical activities.…”