Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

The core activities relate to Drug discovery, ethnobotanical documentation, phytochemical profiling, nutrient and bioactive compound analysis, and restoration of medicinal species.
 
Thrust Area 

Drug Discovery and it's therapeutic applications; Instrumental analysis, Standardisation, Validation of drugs

Scientist Dr. Atish Kumar Sahoo, Senior Scientist
Project Fellow

Bikash Kisan
G. Pavitra Pallavi Achary
Nabarupa Bhattacharya
Pritipadma Nayak
Supriti Mohanty

Paper Publication

Dash Umesh Chandra, Sandeep Kumar Swain, Atala Bihari Jena, Jagnehswar Dandapat, Atish Kumar Sahoo (2024).The ameliorative effect of Piper trioicum in attenuating cognitive deficit in scopolamine-induced neurotoxicity in experimental rats. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 318, Part A, 116911.

Jena P and Sunita Bhatnagar (2024) Phytochemical, antioxidant and cytotoxic activity of solvent extracts of Hedychium spicatum (leaf) wjpls.10(3}: 175-180

Kanhar, Satish, Sandeep Kumar Swain, Umesh Chandra Dash, Neelam Meher, and Atish Kumar Sahoo (2024).Antioxidants of commercial interest from Homalium tomentosum attenuates hepatocellular necrosis: Insights from experimental and computational studies. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy.322:12474.

Meher, Neelam, Bikash Kisan, Sandeep Kumar Swain, and Atish Kumar Sahoo(2024).Industrial importance seed kernel of Buchanania lanzan in contributing antioxidant, antidiabetic, and anticholinesterase activities. Food Bioscience  59:104135.

Pattnaik M. and Sunita Bhatnagar (2024) Phytochemical analysis and bioevaluation of Terminalia racemosa bark. World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research. 13(2), 674-680.

Rout P and Sunita Bhatnagar (2024). Antioxidant, cytotoxic and phytochemical activity of solvent extracts of Zingiber zerumbet. World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research. 13(5), 1081-1092.

Mishra S. & Sunita Bhatnagar (2024) Comparative analysis of methanol extract (leaf) of three species of Sansevieria using chemical and biological parameters. Wjpls. 10(2): 116-118

Swain, Sandeep Kumar, Bikash Kisan, Neelam Meher, and Atish Kumar Sahoo(2024). Optimization of bioactivities of solvent extracts of bark and heartwood of Pterocarpus marsupium and exploration of neuroprotective effect linking to the major Phytoconstituents. Industrial Crops and Products. 221: 119416.

Behera D.R. & Sunita Bhatnagar (2023) Comparative analysis of methanol extract (leaf) of vitex species using chemical and biological parameters. World Journal of Pharmaceutical and Life Science. 11(9), 72-74.

Devismita Dibya and Dr. Sunita Bhatnagar (2023)Comparative analysis of Clitorea ternatea blue and white varieties.World J of Pharmaceutical Research. 12(4), 1967-1972.

Mohapatra Subhashree and Sunita Bhatnagar (2023) Screening of antifungal activity of Terminalia arjuna leaf extracts against Aspergillus flavus. World J of pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. 12(6), 1522-1529.

Rout Deeptimayee, Atish Kumar Sahoo (2023).Clinical implications of a mechanistic link connecting SARS-Cov-2, diabetesmellitus, Zinc in COVID-19 pathophysiology, and the prophylactics in thetreatment of SARS-CoV-2. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Reports. 9:100117.

Rout Pragynasini  Subhashree Mohapatra and Sunita Bhatnagar(2023) Assessment of antifungal activity of Combretum roxburghii solvent leaf extracts against Aspergillus flavus. World Journal of Pharmaceutical and Life Science. 9(8), 73-76.

Rout S.S. and Sunita Bhatnagar(2023) A study on cytotoxic and antioxidant activity of Combretum densiflorum extracts. WJPLS, Vol. 9, Issue 12, 73-75.
Sahoo Smruti Rekha and Sunita Bhatnagar (2023) Assessment of biological potential of non viable seeds of Withania somnifera(l)dunal. World J of Pharmaceutical Research. 12(7), 643-654.

Swain Amit Kumar and Sunita Bhatnagar (2023).  Exploration of cytotoxic and antioxidant potential of Pongamia pinnata (Family: fabaceae). World J of Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences. 9(1), 74-78.

Pradhan Barsa & Sunita Bhatnagar (2023) Antioxidant, cytotoxic and phytochemical analysisOf medicinal plant Ficus microphylla. World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research. 12(14), 1240-125.

Priyadarsini Namrata and Sunita Bhatnagar (2023) Exploration of cytotoxic and antioxidant potential of Plumbago capensis. World J of pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. 12(2), 1424-1434.