Department of Pharmacognosy
Department of Pharmacognosy
Research Areas
- Phytochemistry (Distillation, Extraction, Isolation and Structure analyses)
- Essential Oils
- Flavonoids
- Saponins
- Phenylpropanoids (Lignans, Coumarins and Phenylethanoid glycosides)
- Iridoids
- Xanthons
- Antanoids
- Naphtalens
- Naphtoquinones
- Phenol glycosides
- Tannins
- Cyanogenetic compounds
- Diterpenes
- Triterpenes
- Steroids
- Cardioactive glycosides
- Fatty oil
- Marine Pharmacognosy
- Analytical Pharmacognosy
- Forensic Pharmacognosy
- Pharmacopoeia analysis of plants and herbal drugs
- Quality control analysis of natural products
- Determination of in vitro biological activity
- Antiinflammatory activity
- Antigenotoxic activity (Single Cell Gel Electrophoresis)
- Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor activity
- Immunomodulator activity (Chemotaxis)
- Radical scavenging activity
- Cytotoxic activity (Cell Culture Studies)