<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mitchell Henry Wright</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Joseph Sirdaarta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ben Matthews</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Anthony Carlson Greene</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ian Edwin Cock</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Growth Inhibitory Activity of Kakadu Plum Extracts Against the Opportunistic Pathogenclostridium Perfringens: New Leads in the Prevention and Treatment of Clostridial Myonecrosis</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pharmacognosy Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antibacterial extracts</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antioxidant</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Australian medicinal plants</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Enteritis necroticans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gas gangrene.</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kakadu plum</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Myonecrosis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Terminalia ferdinandiana</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">December 2015</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">144-153</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Clostridium perfringens&lt;/em&gt; is the etiological agent of clostridial myonecrosis and enteritis necroticans. Infections result in exotoxin production, tissue necrosis and unless promptly treated, may result in death. &lt;em&gt;Terminalia ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; (Kakadu plum) fruit has documented therapeutic properties as a general antiseptic agent. Fruit extracts have been reported to inhibit the growth of an extensive panel of pathogenic bacteria. Leaf extracts have also been shown to block the growth of several bacterial species associated with autoimmune inflammatory diseases. &lt;strong&gt;Methods:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;T. ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; fruit and leaf solvent extracts were investigated for growth inhibitory activity by disc diffusion assay against a clinical strain of &lt;em&gt;Clostridium perfringens&lt;/em&gt;. Their MIC values were determined to quantify and compare their efficacies. Toxicity was determined using the &lt;em&gt;Artemia franciscana&lt;/em&gt; nauplii bioassay. Active extracts were analysed by non-targeted HPLC-QTOF mass spectroscopy (with screening against 3 compound databases) for the identification and characterisation of individual components in the crude plant extracts. &lt;strong&gt;Results:&lt;/strong&gt; Methanolic and aqueous &lt;em&gt;T. ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; fruit and leaf extracts, as well as the leaf ethyl acetate extract, displayed growth inhibitory activity in the disc diffusion assay against &lt;em&gt;C. perfringens&lt;/em&gt;. The leaf extracts were generally more potent growth inhibitors than the corresponding fruit extracts, although the aqueous fruit extract had substantially greater efficacy than the aqueous leaf extract. The methanolic and ethyl acetate leaf extracts were particularly potent growth inhibitors, with MIC values of 206 and 117 &amp;mu;g/ml respectively. The fruit methanolic extract also displayed good efficacy, with an MIC of 716 &amp;mu;g/ml. In contrast, the chloroform and hexane extracts of both fruit and leaf were completely devoid of growth inhibitory activity. All &lt;em&gt;T. ferdinandiana &lt;/em&gt;extracts were either nontoxic or of low toxicity in the Artemia fransiscana bioassay. Non-biased phytochemical analysis of the methanolic and ethyl acetate leaf extracts revealed the presence of high relative levels of a diversity of galloand ellagi- tannins.&lt;strong&gt; Conclusion: &lt;/strong&gt;The low toxicity of the &lt;em&gt;T. ferdinandiana &lt;/em&gt;extracts and the potent growth inhibitory bioactivity of the leaf methanolic and ethyl acetate extracts against &lt;em&gt;C. perfringens&lt;/em&gt; indicates their potential as medicinal agents in the treatment and prevention of clostridial myonecrosis and enteritis necroticans. Metabolomic profiling studies indicate that these extracts contained a diversity of tannins.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original Article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">144</style></section><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mitchell Henry Wright,&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Joseph Sirdaarta,&lt;sup&gt;1,2&lt;/sup&gt; Ben &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matthews,&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anthony Carlson Greene,&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Ian Edwin Cock,&lt;sup&gt;1,2*&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;School of Natural Sciences, Nathan Campus, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Rd, Nathan, Queensland 4111, AUSTRALIA&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Environmental Futures Research Institute, Nathan Campus, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Rd, Nathan, Queensland 4111, AUSTRALIA&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Smart Waters Research Centre, Griffith University, Gold Coast, AUSTRALIA&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</style></auth-address></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">R. Courtney</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">J. Sirdaarta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Matthews B</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">I.E. Cock</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tannin components and inhibitory activity of Kakadu plum leaf extracts against microbial triggers of autoimmune inflammatory diseases</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pharmacognosy Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Acinetobacter baylyi</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ankylosing spondylitis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Klebsiella pneumoniae</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">multiple sclerosis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proteus mirabilis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pseudomonas aeruginosa.</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">rheumatoid arthritis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Terminalia ferdinandiana</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">27th Nov, 2014</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">18-31</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction: &lt;/strong&gt;Autoimmune inflammatory diseases can be triggered by specific bacteria in susceptible individuals.&lt;em&gt; Terminalia ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; (Kakadu plum) has documented therapeutic properties as a general antiseptic agent. However, the high ascorbic acid levels in Kakadu plum fruit may interfere with this activity. &lt;strong&gt;Methods: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;T. ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; leaf solvent extracts were investigated by disc diffusion assay against a panel of bacteria known to trigger autoimmune inflammatory diseases.Their MIC values were determined to quantify and compare their efficacies. Toxicity was determined using the&lt;em&gt; Artemia franciscana&lt;/em&gt; nauplii bioassay. Non-targeted HPLC separation of crude extracts coupled to high resolution time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectroscopy with screening against 3 compound databases was used for the identification and characterisation of individual components in crude plant extracts. &lt;strong&gt;Results:&lt;/strong&gt; Methanolic, aqueous and ethyl acetate&lt;em&gt; T. Ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; leaf extracts displayed potent antibacterial activity in the disc diffusion assay against the bacterial triggers of rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and multiple sclerosis. The ethyl acetate extract had the most potent inhibitory activity, with MIC values less than 120 &amp;mu;g/ml against&lt;em&gt; P. mirabilis&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;A. baylyi&lt;/em&gt; (both reference and clinical strains). The ethyl acetate extract had similar potency against K. &lt;em&gt;pneumonia&lt;/em&gt;(both reference and clinical strains), but had higher MIC values (2733 &amp;mu;g/ml) against P. &lt;em&gt;aeruginosa&lt;/em&gt;. The methanolic extract was also a potent inhibitor of bacterial growth, with MIC values generally &amp;lt; 1000 &amp;mu;g/ml. In comparison, the water, chloroform and hexane leaf extracts were all substantially less potent antibacterial agents, with MICs values generally well over 1000 &amp;mu;g/ml. All T. &lt;em&gt;ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; leaf extracts were either nontoxic or of low toxicity in the&lt;em&gt; Artemia fransiscana &lt;/em&gt;bioassay.Non-biased phytochemical analysis of the ethyl acetate extract revealed the presence of high levels of tannins (exifone (4-galloylpyrogallol), ellagic acid dehydrate, trimethylellagic acid, chebulic acid, corilagin, punicalin, castalagin and chebulagic acid). &lt;strong&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/strong&gt; The low toxicity of the T. &lt;em&gt;ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; leaf extracts and their potent inhibitory bioactivity against the bacterial triggers of autoimmune inflammatory disorders indicates their potential as medicinal agents in the treatment and prevention of these diseases.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Key words: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Terminalia ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt;, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, multiple sclerosis, &lt;em&gt;Proteus mirabilis, Klebsiella pneumoniae , Acinetobacter baylyi, Pseudomonas aeruginosa.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original Article</style></work-type><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">R. Courtney, J. Sirdaarta, B. Matthews, I. E. Cock</style></custom1><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">18</style></section><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R. Courtney&lt;sup&gt;a&lt;/sup&gt;, J. Sirdaarta&lt;sup&gt;a,b&lt;/sup&gt;, B. Matthews&lt;sup&gt;c&lt;/sup&gt;, I. E. Cock&lt;sup&gt;a,b*&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;a&lt;/sup&gt;School of Natural Sciences, Nathan Campus, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Rd, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;b&lt;/sup&gt;Environmental Futures Research Institute, Nathan Campus, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Rd, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;c&lt;/sup&gt;Smartwaters Research Centre, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia&lt;/p&gt;</style></auth-address></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">R Courtney</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">J Sirdaarta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">B Matthews</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">I E Cock</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tannin components and inhibitory activity of Kakadu plum leaf extracts against microbial triggers of autoimmune inflammatory diseases</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pharmacognosy Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Acinetobacter baylyi</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ankylosing spondylitis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Klebsiella pneumoniae</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">multiple sclerosis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proteus mirabilis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pseudomonas aeruginosa.</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">rheumatoid arthritis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Terminalia ferdinandiana</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">01/2015</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">18-31</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction:&lt;/strong&gt; Autoimmune inflammatory diseases can be triggered by specific bacteria in susceptible individuals. &lt;em&gt;Terminalia ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; (Kakadu plum) has documented therapeutic properties as a general antiseptic agent. However, the high ascorbic acid levels in Kakadu plum fruit may interfere with this activity. &lt;strong&gt;Methods:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;T. ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; leaf solvent extracts were investigated by disc diffusion assay against a panel of bacteria known to trigger autoimmune inflammatory diseases.Their MIC values were determined to quantify and compare their efficacies.Toxicity was determined using the &lt;em&gt;Artemia franciscana&lt;/em&gt; nauplii bioassay. Non-targeted HPLC separation of crude extracts coupled to high resolution time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectroscopy with screening against 3 compound databases was used for the identification and characterisation of individual components in crude plant extracts. &lt;strong&gt;Results:&lt;/strong&gt; Methanolic, aqueous and ethyl acetate &lt;em&gt;T. Ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; leaf extracts displayed potent antibacterial activity in the disc diffusion assay against the bacterial triggers of rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and multiple sclerosis. The ethyl acetate extract had the most potent inhibitory activity, with MIC values less than 120 &amp;mu;g/ml against &lt;em&gt;P. mirabilis&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;A. baylyi &lt;/em&gt;(both reference and clinical strains). The ethyl acetate extract had similar potency against &lt;em&gt;K. pneumonia &lt;/em&gt;(both reference and clinical strains), but had higher MIC values (2733 &amp;mu;g/ml) against &lt;em&gt;P. aeruginosa&lt;/em&gt;. The methanolic extract was also a potent inhibitor of bacterial growth, with MIC values generally &amp;lt; 1000 &amp;mu;g/ml. In comparison, the water, chloroform and hexane leaf extracts were all substantially less potent antibacterial agents, with MICs values generally well over 1000 &amp;mu;g/ml. All &lt;em&gt;T. ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; leaf extracts were either nontoxic or of low toxicity in the &lt;em&gt;Artemia fransiscana&lt;/em&gt; bioassay.Non-biased phytochemical analysis of the ethyl acetate extract revealed the presence of high levels of tannins (exifone (4-galloylpyrogallol), ellagic acid dehydrate, trimethylellagic acid, chebulic acid, corilagin, punicalin, castalagin and chebulagic acid). &lt;strong&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/strong&gt; The low toxicity of the &lt;em&gt;T. ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; leaf extracts and their potent inhibitory bioactivity against the bacterial triggers of autoimmune inflammatory disorders indicates their potential as medicinal agents in the treatment and prevention of these diseases.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original Article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">18</style></section><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R. Courtney&lt;sup&gt;a&lt;/sup&gt;, J. Sirdaarta&lt;sup&gt;a,b&lt;/sup&gt;, B. Matthews&lt;sup&gt;c&lt;/sup&gt;, I. E. Cock&lt;sup&gt;a,b*&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;sup&gt;a&lt;/sup&gt;School of Natural Sciences, Nathan Campus, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Rd, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;sup&gt;b&lt;/sup&gt;Environmental Futures Research Institute, Nathan Campus, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Rd, Nathan, Queensland 4111,&lt;br /&gt;
Australia&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;sup&gt;c&lt;/sup&gt;Smartwaters Research Centre, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia&lt;/p&gt;
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