Nanobiosensors-their Applications in the Medicinal Plants Industry

Autor: Haidar Saify Nabiabad, Khosro Piri, Massoume Amini
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Journal of Medicinal Plants and By-products, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 131-140 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2322-1399
2588-3739
Popis: For centuries, herbal drugs have been the only accessible resource for treatment of pain and passions. Today, despite remarkable progress and development of synthetic drugs, medicinal plants and their derived drugs are used massively. So that, in some countries medicinal plants is inseparable from drugs and treatment systems. More ever, their marketing and economical aspects are more flourishing than other chemical drugs. Monitoring of medicinal plant products is necessary in drug industry. There is increasing demand for development of analytical equipments for the production process, from crude materials to final products. In this case, biosensors can be excellent analytical tools in order to analysis of medicinal plants and their products. This review is going to explain nano-biosensor technology briefly and so their potential application in medicinal plant industry. Some of these applications are monitoring of environment and fast identification of pathogens, determination of toxicities, measurement of different types of secondary metabolites, herbal pharmacology and others.
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