Oxidative stress and inflammation play important roles in disease development. This study intended to evaluate the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant potential of Echium plantagineum L. bee pollen to support its claimed health beneficial effects. The hydromethanol extract efficiently scavenged nitric oxide ((•)NO) although against superoxide (O2(•-)) it behaved as antioxidant at lower concentrat...

Onosma anatolica Binzet, is described and illustrated as a new species from Niğde province in southern Anatolia, Turkey. It belongs to sect. Onosma L. subsect. Asterotricha (Boiss.) Gürke. The new species is closely related to Onosma subulifolia Riedl from which it is distinguished. Onosma anatolica is readily distinguished from Onosma subulifolia by its sterile shoots, the green-grey stem indu...

With its four species, Anchusa is one of the weedy genera of Boraginaceae in Iran. Its species are distributed in different habitats. In this study, the fruit morphological and micro-morphological features of the Anchusa taxa have been considered, so as to evaluate their diagnostic value. Eight qualitative and quantitative fruit features from 12 accessions of A. italica, A. strigosa, A. arvensi...

Externally accumulated flavonoid aglycones have been found for the first time in Nonea species. They exhibit only flavones, one of them being the rare tricetin-4'-methyl ether. Within the subfamily Boraginoideae, exudate flavonoids appear to be a rare character.

A világon mindenütt, így hazánkban is folyamatosan nő az újonnan megjelenő nem őshonos növényfajok száma. Az új megjelenések felfedezésében, dokumentálásában nemcsak a hivatá­sos kutatók vehetnek részt, hanem nagy szerepe lehet civileknek is. útifűlevelű kígyószisz (Echium plantagineum L.) egyik első hazai adata egy internetes, növényhatározással foglalkozó csoportban került elő. faj nyugat-med...

Notes nomenclaturales sur Solenanthus minimus Brand (Boraginaceae). Une espèce de Boraginaceae, Brand, décrite le territoire l'Iran est néotypifiée en raison l'indisponibilité du matériel original. Dans présent article, elle assignée au genre Rindera la base nouvellement collecté et description originale. Ainsi, Cynoglossum minimum (Brand) Greuter & Stier traité ici comme un synonyme R. bungei ...

background research in the area of herbal psychopharmacology has clearly improved in recent decades. self-administration of herbal medicines has been the most popular therapeutic alternative to standard medicine. objectives since the extract of echium amoenum exhibits an anxiolytic effect, the aim of this study is to evaluate the anxiolytic and hypnotic effects in mice of the aqueous and ethano...