Juniperus drupacea fruit is widely used in traditional and complementary medicine Turkey for the treatment of different diseases various forms such as molasses tar. This study was carried out to evaluate phenolic compounds, organic acid, sugar, macro- micromineral distributions methanol water extracts J. drupace fruit, well their antioxidant antimicrobial potential. For this purpose, total cont...

Abstract Plants are considered as a source of medicine to treat skin-related disorders since decades. Seeds Psoralea corylifolia were used thousands years ago for re-pigmentation in vitiligo patients especially South Asia. It is well-known fact that melanocytes, which the specialized cells skin causes through series chemical and enzymatic reactions, mainly due copper containing enzyme tyrosinas...

0 Cephalotaxine and several of its esters were isolated from Cephalotaxus harringtonia K. Koch var. harringtonia. Although cephalotaxine is inactive, harringtonine, isoharringtonine, homoharringtonine, and deoxyharringtonine have shown significant activity against experimental P388 leukemia and against L-121O leukemia in mice. Keyphrases 0 Cepha/otaxus harringtollia alkaloids-structure. antitum...

Mechanism design, originally a subfield of microeconomics that concerns implementing systemic good solutions to problems that involve multiple self-interested agents so as to align their incentives with the objectives of the system designer, is now becoming a standard tool in computer science as more and more computer-related systems and phenomena are understood as interactions between self-int...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related neurodegenerative disease that is mediated by multiple signaling pathways. In recent years, the components of Psoralea Fructus (PF) have demonstrated some anti-Alzheimer effects both in vitro and in vivo. To further reveal the active compounds of PF and their mechanisms regulating key targets of AD, in this study, we identified four prenylated compound...

The active parts of 11 medicinal plants were analyzed for physico-chemical evaluation, phytochemical determination and antioxidant activity. The physico-chemical evaluation revealed that highest water soluble extractive was from Origanum vulgare (38%), highest chloroform extractive was from Psoralea corylifolia (21%); highest ethanolic extractive was that of Acorus calamus (11%) and the highest...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), along with obesity, is increasing world-wide and is one of the major causes of chronic hepatic disease. The present study evaluated the ameliorative effect of extract of Psoralea corylifolia L. seed (PCS) on high fat diet-induced NAFLD in C57BL/6 mice after daily administration at 300 or 500 mg/kg for 12 weeks. Treatment with PCS extract significantly r...

An aphrodisiac is a type of food or drink that has the effect of making those who eat or drink it more aroused in a sexual way. Aphrodisiacs can be categorized according to their mode of action into three groups: substances that increase libido (i.e., sexual desire, arousal), substances that increase sexual potency (i.e., effectiveness of erection) and substances that increase sexual pleasure. ...