PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite primers were developed for Viscum coloratum (Santalaceae), a semiparasitic medicinal plant that is known for its anticancer properties. Due to excessive human harvesting and loss of suitable habitat of its populations, it has become a potentially threatened species requiring immediate conservation efforts. METHODS AND RESULTS Based on transcriptome data for...

Çankırı- Eldivan Orman İşletme Şefliği ormanlarındaki 371’nolu bölmede bulunan bazı karaçam (Pinus nigra L.) meşcerelerinde görülen çam ökseotu (Viscum album parazitinin, doğal gençliklerine bulaşma yoğunluğu ve yetişme ortamı özellikleri ile ökseotunun arasındaki ilişkiyi belirlemek için 21 örnek alanda meşcere parametreleri derecesi belirlenmiştir. Ökseotunun birey üzerindeki miktar 6 derecel...

VISCUM ALBUM EXTRACT MAY INCREASE OVERALL SURVIVAL IN ADULTS WITH LOCALLY ADVANCED OR METASTATIC PANCREATIC CANCER NOT ELIGIBLE FOR ANTINEOPLASTIC THERAPY Level 2 (mid-level) evidence Reference: Eur J Cancer 2013;49 (18):3788 At least 60% of medications used to treat cancer were originally derived from plants. Viscum album (European mistletoe) is widely used in Europe for the treatment of cance...

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BACKGROUND Besides conventional anticancer therapy many breast cancer patients use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) like the medicinal herb mistletoe (Viscum album L.). To gain more knowledge about possible herb-drug interactions between CAM and conventional anticancer medications, in the present in vitro study we investigated the effect of a standardized mistletoe preparation on th...

The research on the dendroflora of Chornobyl town 30 years after accident at nuclear power plant reveal that taxonomic composition green spaces comprises 87 species and 8 decorative forms 29 families, 26 orders, 2 divisions. plantations is dominated by trees (63%), bushes (30%) vines (7%). Despite natural succession processes over past years, are introducers, which make up 57% total number taxa...

Background: Metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma often has a multifocal tumor pattern with markedly depressed hepatic function. Hepatic resection in many cases results in no long-term benefit. After a chemotherapy hepatic tumors rarely disappear completely and the duration of responses is short. In the last decades growing evidence suggested that a disturbed balance in the innate system can also...