What is it about?
Extracts of three folk-remedies of Andaman Islands when investigated for antiinfective, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities; one demonstrated antiviral activity at 300 µg/ml; while two others had antibacterial activity at 64-1000 µg/ml with significant dose-dependent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities
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Why is it important?
It may help to develop natural hit or lead molecules against infection with antiinflammatory and antioxidative activities.
Perspectives
This is the first report bioactivities of those three plants used by the tribal communities of Bay Islands which interested me when I was working on the health aspects of tribes of Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Dr Debprasad Chattopadhyay
ICMR VIRUS UNIT, Kolkata
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This page is a summary of: Dose-Dependent Therapeutic Antiinfectives from Ethnomedicines of Bay Islands, Chemotherapy, January 2006, Karger Publishers,
DOI: 10.1159/000092859.
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