Caraway seeds contain between 0.5–7% essential oil, rich in monoterpenes that have a characteristic aroma and chemical properties. oil has several bioactive compounds are of industrial importance, particularly for pharmaceutical health care products. Carvone limonene the main terpenes present caraway which along with some unique fatty acids (i.e. petroselinic acid) determine (Carum carvi L.) qu...

The chemical composition and biological activities of 19 essential oils and seven of their major components were tested against free and intracellular forms of Leishmania chagasi and Trypanosoma cruzi parasites as well as Vero and THP-1 mammalian cell lines. The essential oils were obtained from different species of Lippia, a widely distributed genus of Colombian plants. They were extracted by ...

We have characterized odorant-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in isolated chemosensory cilia prepared from frog and rat olfactory epithelium. Cilia from both species exhibit high levels of adenylate cyclase activity. Basal activity is stimulated approximately 2-fold by GTP and approximately 5-fold by guanosine 5'-(3-O-thio)triphosphate and forskolin. Odorants augment enzyme activity 30-65...

Spatial activation patterns within the olfactory bulb are believed to contribute to the neural representation of odorants. In this study, we attempted to predict the perceptions of odorants from their evoked patterns of neural activity in the olfactory bulb. We first describe the glomerular activation patterns evoked by pairs of odorant enantiomers based on the uptake of [(14)C]2-deoxyglucose i...

The essential oil of the herb medicinal plant known as “smoke tree” (Cotinus coggygria Scop.) from Eastern, Anatolia (Turkey) was analyzed by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS). Twenty ingredients were identified for flowers representing 100% total while eleven characterized in leaf comprising 99.96% extracted. As thymol (31.33%) and carvone (20.57%) main flower oil, major determined ...

background & aim: lamiaceae is one of the most important families of plants with global transmittal. the family is divided to two major groups: lamioideae and nepetoideae. mentha l. genus has high genetic variation because of different ploidy levels and interspecific interspecific hybridization thus that is possible to select genotypes with excelsior traits as essence content. the genus inc...