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Anti-dormant mycobacterial activity of Melissa officinalis L. (Lemon balm).

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Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

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Pharmacognosy

Abstract

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality among adults who have tested HIV-positive or those living in poverty. One of the major reasons for the need of extended chemotherapeutic regimens and widespread epidemicity of tuberculosis is that the causative agent, M. tuberculosis, has the ability to be in a dormant state. Therefore, there is an urgent need for new lead compounds that are effective against M. tuberculosis in both its active and dormant states. In this study, we investigated the anti-mycobacterial activity of the total ethanol extract and fractions of Melissa officinalis L. (Lemon balm) under both actively growing and dormancy inducing conditions. As a result, the total extract of M. officinalis exhibited antimicrobial activity against both active and dormant states of Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium bovis BCG with Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) values ranging from 12.5 µg/mL to 50 µg/mL. Among the fractions, the n-hexane fraction showed the most ideal activity against active and dormant states of M. smegmatis (MIC = 6.25 µg/mL). In addition, the n-hexane fraction also exhibited antimicrobial activity against actively growing M. bovis BCG (MIC = 12.5 µg/mL), while moderate activity (MIC = 50 µg/mL) was observed against the dormant state of M. bovis BCG.

DOI

10.21608/jabps.2021.50882.1112

Keywords

Lamiaceae, Melissa officinalis, tuberculosis, Dormant state, antimicrobial activity

Authors

First Name

waleed

Last Name

Abdel-Naime

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Affiliation

a:Graduate School of pharmaceutical sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan b: Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Minia University, Minia, Egypt.

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waleed_cognosy@yahoo.com

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Osaka

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First Name

John

Last Name

Fahim

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Affiliation

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Minia University, Minia 61519, Egypt

Email

johnrefaat82@yahoo.com

City

Minia

Orcid

0000-0002-2425-0819

First Name

Mostafa

Last Name

Ahmed

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Affiliation

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Minia University, Minia, Egypt.

Email

m_fouad2000@yahoo.com

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-

Orcid

0000-0002-3909-3537

First Name

Masayoshi

Last Name

Arai

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Affiliation

Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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araim@phs.osaka-u.ac.jp

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Kamel

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Affiliation

b:Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Minia University, Minia, Egypt. c:Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Deraya University, Universities Zone, New Minia, Egypt.

Email

mskamel@mu.edu.eg

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Volume

4

Article Issue

2

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23463

Issue Date

2021-04-01

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2020-11-23

Publish Date

2021-04-01

Page Start

95

Page End

97

Print ISSN

2535-1869

Online ISSN

2535-2040

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522

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Publication Title

Journal of advanced Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

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https://jabps.journals.ekb.eg/

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Anti-dormant mycobacterial activity of Melissa officinalis L. (Lemon balm).

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Created At

22 Jan 2023