<?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%">Madathilparambil Vasu Sudhakaran</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Finger Printing of the Anatomical Markers, HPTLC Profile and Heavy Metals Content in the Leaves of Aristolochia indica Linn.</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%">Areoles</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aristolic acid</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Heavy metals.</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">HPTLC finger print</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Physico-chemical parameters</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stomatal index</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%">117-126</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;Background: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Aristolochia indica&lt;/em&gt; Linn is now an endangered medicinal plant belonging to the family &lt;em&gt;Aristolochiaceae&lt;/em&gt;. Many ethono-botanically important species of &lt;em&gt;Aristolochia&lt;/em&gt; were found used in the traditional forms of medicine for the treatment of various illnesses. &lt;strong&gt;Aim:&lt;/strong&gt; The present study concerns the microscopic, fluorescent, powder, quantitative microscopic characteristics of the leaves of &lt;em&gt;Aristolichia&lt;/em&gt; indica Linn and its physico-chemical standards. &lt;strong&gt;Materials and Methods:&lt;/strong&gt; Morpho-histological profile, Highperformance thin-layer chromatographic (HPTLC) finger print profile, and heavy metals content of the leaves of &lt;em&gt;Aristolichia indica&lt;/em&gt; Linn. &lt;strong&gt;Results:&lt;/strong&gt; The presence of camptodromous pinnate venation with pentagonal shaped areoles with linear veinlet endings, non-glandular hooked trichomes, amphistomatic and anomocytic stomata, small palisade ratio, small stomatal index were the anatomical features characteristics of the taxon. Physico-chemical evaluation of the leaves gave moisture content of 10.5%, total ash 12.7%, acid insoluble ash 1.9%, acid soluble ash 10.8%. Highperformance thin-layer chromatographic (HPTLC) identification of marker compound (Aristolochic acid I or (AAI)) in methanol extract of leaves was carried out. The developed HPTLC Chromatogram had revealed nine phytoconstutents in extract of leaf sample. The Rf value for Aristolochic acid I (C&lt;sub&gt;17&lt;/sub&gt;H&lt;sub&gt;11&lt;/sub&gt;NO&lt;sub&gt;7&lt;/sub&gt;) was found to be 0.41 and densitometric scanning had shown &amp;lambda;&lt;sub&gt;max&lt;/sub&gt; at 318 nm for the marker compound. The content of marker constituent (AA I) present in shade-dried leaves of &lt;em&gt;Aristochia indica&lt;/em&gt; Linn was estimated as 0.049%. The Flame atomic absorption spectrometric determination of elements had shown appreciable amounts of the elements such as Fe (0.5442 mg/g), Zn (0.026.82 mg/g), Ni (0.008 mg/g,) and Cu (0.002 mg/g) by dry weight of the leaves of &lt;em&gt;Aristolichia indica&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/strong&gt; The present study suggests that the delineated characteristics of the leaves of &lt;em&gt;A. indica&lt;/em&gt;, could tag as the identifying parameters to substantiate and authenticate the raw drugs from the spurious/adulterants materials and could also be effectively used for the regulatory perspectives and quality assessment of Aristololic acid &amp;Iota; in the medicinal formulation/finished products. The presence of important mineral elements inside this plant showed that it could be a nutritious plant and important to the human health.&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%">117</style></section><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Madathilparambil Vasu Sudhakaran &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;UGC-Academic Staff College, University of Calicut, Calicut University PO, Malappuram District, Kerala, INDIA.&lt;/p&gt;
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