Browsing Research publications by Author "Gibbons, Simon"
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An analysis of the 'legal high' mephedrone
Gibbons, Simon; Zloh, Mire (2010)'Legal highs' are compounds, plant or fungal material which can be readily bought from the internet without legal restriction and the single chemicals may be structurally related to illegal drugs of abuse such as the ... -
Antibacterial acylphloroglucinols from Hypericum olympicum
Shiu, Winnie K. P.; Rahman, M. Mukhlesur; Curry, Jonathan; Stapleton, Paul; Zloh, Mire; Malkinson, John P.; Gibbons, Simon (2012)New antibacterial acylphloroglucinols (1-5) were isolated and characterized from the aerial parts of the plant Hypericum olympicum L. cf. uniflorum. The structures of these compounds were confirmed by extensive 1D- and ... -
Chemometrics analysis of solid herbal products and development of spectral databases
Said, Mazlina M.; Gibbons, Simon; Zloh, Mire (2010-10) -
Isopimaric acid from Pinus nigra shows activity against multidrug-resistant and EMRSA strains of Staphylococcus aureus
Smith, Eileen; Williamson, Elizabeth; Zloh, Mire; Gibbons, Simon (2005)The diterpene isopimaric acid was extracted from the immature cones of Pinus nigra (Arnold) using bioassay-guided fractionation of a crude hexane extract. Isopimaric acid was assayed against multidrug-resistant (MDR) and ... -
Purification, characterisation and identification of acidocin LCHV, an antimicrobial peptide produced by Lactobacillus acidophilus n.v. Er 317/402 strain Narine
Mkrtchyan, Hermine; Gibbons, Simon; Heidelberger, Sibylle; Zloh, Mire; Limaki, Hamidreza Khalatbari (2010)In the last two decades, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been gaining attention as antimicrobial alternatives to chemical food preservatives and commonly used antibiotics. Lactobacillus acidophilus n.v. Er 317/402 strain ... -
Rapid detection of sildenafil analogue in Eurycoma longifolia products using a new two-tier procedure of the near infrared (NIR) spectra database
Said, Mazlina Mohd; Gibbons, Simon; Moffat, Anthony C.; Zloh, Mire (2014-09-01)A simple and cost-effective two-tier drug screening procedure comprises a 'dedicated' NIR spectral database of common medicines and a 'unified' database was developed to detect the sildenafil analogue in Eurycoma longifolia ...