Volume : VI, Issue : VIII, August - 2017

A Review of Some Analytical Methods Used In Natural Products Research

Homa Jilani Khan, Murtaza Abid, T. S. Naqvi, Mohammad Waseem, Meenakshi Shukla, A. A. Mahdi

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 Recently, medicinal plants are gaining much interest in medicinal research because of their use in ethno medicine treating common disease such as cold, fever and other medicinal claims are now supported with sound scientific evidences. The first step of study on medicinal plants started with extraction procedures (e.g. yield and phytochemicals content) and also to the subsequent assays performed. Nowadays number of different process and a wide range of technologies are available for extraction process. Hence, this review aim to describe and compare the most commonly used methods based on their principle, strength and limitation to help evaluating the suitability and economic feasibility of the methods. The analysis of bioactive phytochemicals present in the plant extracts involving the applications of common phytochemical screening assays, chromatographic techniques such as HPLC and, TLC as well as non-chromatographic techniques such as immunoassay and Fourier Transform Infra Red (FTIR) is discussed. Much research has been carried out towards the evaluation of plant extracts as effective disease- preventing agents since they can act on a specific or multiple molecular and cellular targets. Natural phytochemicals derived from medicinal plants have achieved significant response in the potential management of several human clinical conditions or diseases. The most important of these phytochemicals or bioactive compounds are alkaloids, flavonoid, terpenoids, tannins and phenolic compounds which have great potential in the fight against many diseases

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Homa Jilani Khan, Murtaza Abid, T.S. Naqvi, Mohammad Waseem, Meenakshi Shukla, A.A. Mahdi, A Review of Some Analytical Methods Used In Natural Products Research, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-6, ISSUE-8, AUGUST-2017


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