From plants to antimicrobials: Natural products against bacterial membranes

F Nourbakhsh, M Lotfalizadeh… - Phytotherapy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial membrane barrier provides a cytoplasmic environment for organelles of bacteria.
The membrane is composed of lipid compounds containing phosphatide protein and a …

Back to Nature: Medicinal plants as promising sources for antibacterial drugs in the post-antibiotic era

EM Abdallah, BY Alhatlani, R de Paula Menezes… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Undoubtedly, the advent of antibiotics in the 19th century had a substantial impact,
increasing human life expectancy. However, a multitude of scientific investigations now …

Antibacterial properties of medicinal plants: recent trends, progress, and challenges

L Abate, A Bachheti, RK Bachheti… - Traditional herbal therapy …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Resistance in microbes towards existing antibiotics has become a part of natural adaptation,
leading to the survival of resistant microbial strains. It can be attributed to the extreme and …

Medicinal plants: A review

R Singh - Journal of plant sciences, 2015 - ajartifintel.org
Medicinal plants have been used in virtually all cultures as a source of medicine. Assurance
of the safety, quality, and efficacy of medicinal plants and herbal products has now become …

Evaluation of cell membrane integrity as a potential antimicrobial target for plant products

TA Chitemerere, S Mukanganyama - BMC complementary and alternative …, 2014 - Springer
Background There is urgent need to discover new antimicrobial compounds with diverse
chemical structures and mechanisms of action due to increasing new and re-emerging …

Plant-derived antimicrobials: Insights into mitigation of antimicrobial resistance

SK Yang, LY Low, PSX Yap, K Yusoff… - Records of Natural …, 2018 - research.monash.edu
Antibiotic resistance had first been reported not long after the discovery of the first antibiotic
and has remained a major public health issue ever since. Challenges are constantly …

A comprehensive review on medicinal plants as antimicrobial therapeutics: potential avenues of biocompatible drug discovery

U Anand, N Jacobo-Herrera, A Altemimi, N Lakhssassi - Metabolites, 2019 - mdpi.com
The war on multidrug resistance (MDR) has resulted in the greatest loss to the world's
economy. Antibiotics, the bedrock, and wonder drug of the 20th century have played a …

Towards advances in medicinal plant antimicrobial activity: A review study on challenges and future perspectives

N Vaou, E Stavropoulou, C Voidarou, C Tsigalou… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
The increasing incidence of drug-resistant pathogens raises an urgent need to identify and
isolate new bioactive compounds from medicinal plants using standardized modern …

[HTML][HTML] From the environment to the hospital: How plants can help to fight bacteria biofilm

ALF de Melo, L Rossato, M dos Santos Barbosa… - Microbiological …, 2022 - Elsevier
The emergence of resistance to antibiotics has become a global challenge as far as the
control and treatment of nosocomial infections are concerned. Compared to the planktonic …

Natural products as antibacterial agents

GB Mahady, Y Huang, BJ Doyle, T Locklear - Studies in natural products …, 2008 - Elsevier
For thousands of years medicinal plants have played a significant role in the treatment of a
wide range of medical conditions, including infectious diseases. Some naturally occurring …