Exploration of the anticandidal mechanism of Cassia spectabilis in debilitating candidiasis

• Main Authors: Torey, Angeline, Vijayarathna, Soundararajan, Jothy, Subramanion L., Gothai, Sivapragasam, Yeng, Chen, Latha, Lachimanan Yoga, Kanwar, Jagat R., Dharmaraj, Saravanan, Sasidharan, Sreenivasan
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2016
• Subjects: R735-854 Medical education. Medical schools. Research
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/39076/; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26870686
• Institution: Universiti Sains Malaysia

Candida albicans has become resistant to the commercially available, toxic, and expensive anti-Candida agents that are on the market. These factors force the search for new antifungal agents from natural resources. Cassia spectabilis had been traditionally employed by healers for many generations....