There is an increasing interest in revisiting plants for drug discovery, proving scientifically their role as remedies. The aim of this review was to give overview the ethnopharmacological uses Pistacia lentiscus L. (PlL) leaves and fruits, expanding search scientific discovery chemistry, anti-inflammatory, antioxidative antimicrobial activities. PlL a wild-growing shrub rich terpenoids polyphe...

Females of woody dioecious species usually devote more resources to reproduction than males. This may lead to a decrease in female survival and growth. The costs of reproduction, however, can be lightened through a number of mechanisms, as for example avoiding the temporal coincidence of reproduction and vegetative growth. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether males and females of P. le...

The effect of polyethylene glycol (PEG) on intake and digestibility in Sarda goats either fed in metabolic crates or browsing a Mediterranean scrubland, featured by tannin-rich species, was studied. In metabolic cages (Experiment 1) nine dry goats were fed ad libitum with foliage of lentisk (Pistacia lentiscus L.) supplemented with 200 g per day of a concentrate and either 0, 25 or 50 g per day...

Shrub encroachment (SE) is a phenomenon in which grasses and herbaceous vegetation are replaced by woody shrubs. Many previous studies have highlighted the effects of SE on soil respiration rates nutrient storage, but little known about impacts microbiota. While work considered shrubs to be non-species specific or as single intervening species, we selected an Ampelodemsos mauritanicus grassland...

The wide distribution of clefts in lower animals suggests that cleft lip is a disease older than man himself. It is unfortunate that our knowledge of the early evolution of lip repair is extremely sketchy. Undoubtedly the first sporadic attempts at approximating the raw edges of a cleft went unrecorded. Celsus, the first century Roman dilettante who was an encyclopedist and not a surgeon (Garri...