colitis is an inflammatory disease of the intestine with unknown etiology involving multiple immune, genetic and environmental factors. we were interested to examine the effect of total extract from pycnocycla spinosa boiss. on the treatment of experimental colitis. mediators involved in colonic inflammation are prostaglandins, interleukins, leukotriene as well as an increase in myeloperoxidase...

son, William Abbey, Abigail Allwood, Dmitriy Bekker, Benjamin Bornstein, Nathalie A. Cabrol, Rebecca Castaño, Steve A. Chien, Joshua Doubleday, Tara Estlin, Greydon Foil, Thomas Fuchs, Daniel Howarth, Kevin Ortega, Kiri L. Wagstaff. Contact: [email protected]; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr. Pasadena, CA 91109, USA; SETI Institute, M...

Hydroalcoholic extract of Pycnocycla spinosa is a relaxant of rat ileum and inhibits diarrhea in mice. As P. spinosa extract has spasmolytic activity on ileum, it could also affect other smooth muscles like bladder. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the effect of P. spinosa extract on rat bladder contraction. In an in vitro study, the effects of P. spinosa extract, nifedipine ...

BACKGROUND The study was aimed at determining the anti-inflammatory activity of fractions and extracts obtained from Strychnos spinosa leaves on a mediator of inflammation nitric oxide (NO). MATERIALS AND METHODS Leaves were extracted with acetone and separated into fractions with different polarities by solvent-solvent fractionation. The Griess assay was used to determine the nitric oxide (N...

Studying the biochemical responses of different plant species to insect herbivory may help improve our understanding of the evolution of defensive metabolites found in host plants and their role in plant-herbivore interactions. Untargeted metabolic fingerprints measured as individual mass features were used to compare metabolite reactions in three Brassicales host-plant species (Cleome spinosa,...

A preliminary survey of genetic diversity among 34 commercially popular Carica papaya cultivars from India and abroad, 6 accessions of Vasconcellea species and 1 accession of Jacaratia spinosa, was done using 20 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. The SSR profiles were used to find out total number of alleles, null and rare alleles, Polymorphism Information Content (PIC) values and to calcula...

The use of highly discriminatory methods for the identification and characterization of genotypes is essential for plant protection and appropriate use. We utilized the RAPD method for the genetic fingerprinting of 11 plant species of desert origin (seven with known medicinal value). Andrachne telephioides, Zilla spinosa, Caylusea hexagyna, Achillea fragrantissima, Lycium shawii, Moricandia sin...

Chloroplast DNA diversity in Prunus spinosa, a common shrub of European deciduous forests, was assessed using the polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) technique. Thirty-two haplotypes were detected in 25 populations spread across the European continent. Ten haplotypes were shared by two or more populations, and 22 were private. The major proportion of th...

Jill B. Becker,1 Lisa M. Monteggia,2 Tara S. Perrot-Sinal,3 Russell D. Romeo,4 Jane R. Taylor,5 Rachel Yehuda,6 and Tracy L. Bale7 1Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, 2Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, 3Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2, ...

The article presents Data on the content of biologically active compounds (BAC) and total phenolic antioxidants activity (TPA) evaluated for aboveground organs three species from Caragana Genus – C. bungei, pygmaea и spinosa, growing in Mountain Altai. It was determined that leaves reproductive contain flavonols, catechins, tannins, carotenoids, pectin substances. is shown substances a plant ar...