Research Journal of Recent Sciences ________________________________________________ ISSN 2277 - 2502
Vol. 1(ISC-2011), 398-404 (2012)
Res.J.Recent.Sci.

Review Paper

Initiation of Pharmaceutical Factories depending on more Application of
Biotechnology on some Medicinal Plants Review Article
(In Vitro Production of some Antioxidant, Analgesic, Antibacterial, Antidiabetic agents)
Eman, A. Alam
Botany Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, EGYPT

Available online at, www.isca.in
(Received 15th October 2011, revised 10th January 2012, accepted 25th January 2012)

Abstract
Higher plants are an important source of all type of substances, especially medicines (glycosides, ethereal oils, steroids,
flavonoids, anthraquinones, alkaloids, tannins and saponins, etc.,). Traditionally the medicinal plants have been grown and
then the active components extracted and this is likely to remain the normal procedure. However the production of medicinal
plants can present problems, which have load to the search for other ways to produce naturally accruing substances: i.
Production in the field is strongly dependent on season, weather, climate, diseases and pests. ii. Naturally occurring sources,
especially in the tropics and subtropical zones, are becoming limited and some medicinal plants are extremely scarce. iiiThere may be technical and economic problems in production. iv. Production is labor intensive and therefore costs are high.
v. There may be political instability in the country where the plants are available resulting in an interrupted supply. For the
above mentioned reasons, attempts have been made to obtain substances from cell suspension cultures of higher plants,
either through accumulation in the callus (biomass) or sometimes by the release into the nutrient medium. In this review we
will discuss in vitro production of some antioxidant, analgesic, antibacterial, antidiabetic agents.
Keywords: Glycosides, ethereal oils, steroids, flavonoids, weather, climate, production antibacterial, antidiabetic agents.

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