Open AccessExamining the anti-candidal activity of 10 selected Indian herbs and investigating the effect of Lawsonia inermis extract on germ tube formation, protease, phospholipase, and aspartate dehydrogenase enzyme activity in Candida albicans
Author(s) -
Sripathy Ravichandran,
Muthuraman Sundararaman
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of pharmacology/the indian journal of pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.286
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1998-3751
pISSN - 0253-7613
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7613.174523
Subject(s) - candida albicans , germ tube , lawsonia inermis , biology , corpus albicans , microbiology and biotechnology , lactate dehydrogenase , enzyme , enzyme assay , antimicrobial , protease , biochemistry , proteases , traditional medicine , medicine
The objective of the study is to identify potential anti-candidal agents from natural resources and elucidate the effect of Lawsonia inermis extract on major virulent factors of Candida albicans.