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BDCP Center for Medicinal and Aromatic
Plants Research
This Center is located on Aku Road, Nsukka in South Eastern
Nigeria. It was established in response to the need for
dynamic comprehensive laboratory services in the country.
The center consists of a laboratory, a plant drying and
processing unit and a Conference center. This Center also
houses the BDCP Secretariat in Nsukka.
The capabilities of the Center for Medicinal
and Aromatic Plant Research include processing and standardization
of phytomedicine as well as maintaining a full herbarium
and ethnobotanical database. This center is a solution
to the dialogue being held over the years on standardization
of herbal medicines and thus is open to both local and
international scientists as well as herbalists/ traditional
healers. In this Center, extraction of selected medicinal
plants, initial bioassay screens of extracts and bulk
extraction of plant material for drug development are
performed. The Center also maintains an extract bank which
incorporates inventory of the extracts, their distribution
and their status in the test systems. Brine Shrimp lethality
bioassays, Potato disc assays, TLC, Bioassay- guided fractionation,
Chromatographic techniques, Isolation of compounds, Spectra
studies and Chemical analysis will be conducted in the
laboratory.
BDCP will appreciate assistance in the
form of laboratory equipment such as High Pressure Liqul
'd Chromatography, Chromatotron, Gas Chromatography, Countercurrent
Chromatography (CCC), Spectroscopic equipment (MS, NMR,
UV, FTIR, etc.), Freezers and Freeze Dryers for this unique
center. For further information, contact BDCP Secretariat
at 110 Aku Road, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria. Phone/Fax:
(234) 42- 770724.
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