List of studies on the rationality of Placentrex Therapy

By Swapan Das, Calcutta
An aqueous extract of human placenta is said to have potent therapeutic potential. In India, this extract is sold under the trade name ‘Placentrex’, manufactured by the sole proprietor Albert David Ltd, Kolkata, India. In India the extensive research on human placental extract is done by Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata, a unit of CSIR, India.

So, we thought to come up with a List of Publications on ‘Placentrex’ from IICB in reputed international and national journals to showcase the kind of research work has been done on 'Placentrex' by IICB. The interested readers may further visit the referred links to read about these research works. 
The list of studies on the rationality of Placentrex Therapy, as follows:

• Piyali Datta and Debasish Bhattacharyya, ‘Spectroscopic and chromatographic evidences of NADPH in human placental extract used as wound healer’, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 2004; 34: 1091 -1098. (Read more at PubMed)

• Piyali Datta and Debasish Bhattacharyya, ‘Analysis of fluorescence excitation-emission matrix of multicomponent drugs: A case study with human placental extract used as wound healer’, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 2004; 36: 211-218. (Read more at PubMed)

• Piyali Datta Chakraborty and Debasish Bhattacharyya, ‘Isolation of fibronectin Type III like peptide from human placental extract used as wound healer’, Journal of Chromatography B, 2005; 818: 67-73. (Read more at PubMed)

• Piyali Datta Chakraborty and Debasish Bhattacharyya, ’In Vitro growth inhibition of microbes by human placental extract’, Current Science, 2005; 88: 782-86. (Read more at Indian Academy of Sciences website)

• Piyali Datta Chakraborty, Debasish Bhattacharyya, Swati Pal and Nahid Ali, ‘In vitro nitric oxide induction by mouse peritoneal macrophages treated with human placental extract’, International Immunopharmacology, 2006; 6:100-107. (Read more a PubMed)

• Sangeeta Nath and Debasish Bhattacharyya, ‘Cell adhesion by aqueous extract of human placenta used as wound healer’, Indian Journal of Experimental Biology , 2007; 45:732-38. (Read more at PubMed)

• Debashree De, Piyali Datta Chakraborty and Debasish Bhattacharyya, Analysis of free and bound NADPH in aqueous extract of human placenta used as wound healer, J. Chromatogr. B, 2009; 877 :2435–2442. (Read more at PubMed)

• Piyali Datta Chakraborty, Debashree De, Subhashree Bandyopadhyay and Debasish Bhattacharyya Human aqueous placental extract as a wound healer, J. Wound Care, 2009; 18 :462 – 467. (Read more at PubMed)

• Debashree De, Piyali Datta Chakraborty and Debasish Bhattacharyya, Regulation of Trypsin activity by peptide fraction of an aqueous extract of human placenta used as wound healer,Journal of Cellular Physiology,2010,DOI: 10.1002/jcp.22535 (Read more at PubMed)

• Debashree De and Piyali Datta Chakraborty, Human Placental extract: Biochemical evaluation as a wound healer, Physiology Update, (2009), Vol 1., p.p. 76-90, a book published by Dept. of General Human Physiology, Haldia Institute of Dental Sciences and Research, West Bengal. (Read more at docstoc - the documents' website)

• Piyali Datta Chakraborty and Debasish Bhattacharyya (2012). Aqueous Extract of Human Placenta, Recent Advances in Research on the Human Placenta, Dr. Jing Zheng (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0194-9, InTech.(Read more at Intech - "Aqueous extract of human placenta as a therapeutic agent")

All these studies echoes for the rationality of Placentrex Therapy.