Discovery and characterisation of cysteine-rich peptides from Withania somnifera

• Main Author: Ng, Fang Lin
• Other Authors: Jimmy Pingkwan Tam @ James P Tam
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/72508
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Known as Ashwagandha and Asgand respectively in the Ayurveda and Unani system of medicine, Withania somnifera is a plant whose leaves and roots possess many pharmacological properties such as tonic, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, and aphrodisiac among others and, as a result, is used for thous...