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Background: Obesity is a worldwide lifestyle disorder and its incidence is growing at an alarming rate. Pancreatic lipase (PL) plays a key role in lipid metabolism and hence a potential target for obesity treatment. There have been reports that many bioactive compounds from natural sources are vast pool of PL inhibitors. Objective: In search of natural pancreatic lipase inhibitors, the review summarizes the potential of natural products for their pancreatic lipase inhibitory activity. Methods: In this review the data obtained from literature search across various electronic databases and journal article publications are reviewed. Results: The pancreatic lipase inhibitory activities of 61 biological sources were reviewed in this paper is backed by preclinical experimental evidence, either in vivo or in vitro. Conclusion: This article can be used as a ready to use reference for therapeutic lead molecules from plants, marine and insect derived natural products with PL inhibitory activity. The research is more focused on the discovery of more ingenious pancreatic lipase inhibitors with lesser consequences.

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Objective: The present study was carried out to evaluate the antioxidant activity of different extracts of two medicinal plants. Methods: In-vitro antioxidant activity of different extracts of Hydrocotyle javanica Thunb and Peristrophe bicalyculata (Retz.) Nees were determined by following methods such as Lipid peroxide assay (LPO), nitric oxide assay (NO), glutathione (GSH), catalase (CAT). Results: Among eight different extracts, n-Hexane H. javanica extract and alcoholic P. bicalyculata extract showed more potent in vitro antioxidant activity in terms of LPO, NO, GSH, SOD, and CAT assay. Conclusion: From the results, it can be concluded that n-Hexane H. javanica extract and alcoholic P. bicalyculata extract showed more potent in vitro antioxidant activity.