In this study, six taxa of micromycetous fungi collected from Golestan province (N Iran) during spring and summer of 2010, are reported. Melanospora zobelii on Picoa lefebvrei, Diachea leucopodia on Sambucus nigra, Choanephora cucurbitarum on Brassica oleracea, Trichurus spiralis on Prunus domestica, tuber of Solanum tuberosum and seeds of Gossypium hirsutum and Dictyosporium heptasporum on dea...

UNLABELLED The people in Mexico still depend upon the use of medicinal plants to treat simple health problems, including those who live in regions like Tlanchinol Hidalgo, where it is still possible to find people who speak the pre-Hispanic Nahua language. This area is surrounded by rain forest, which is more or less well conserved, so ethnopharmacological field studies are quite relevant. The ...

The effect of different phytogenic feed additives on reducing odorous compounds in swine was investigated using in vitro fermentation and analyzed their microbial communities. Soybean meal (1%) added with 0.1% different phytogenic feed additives (FA) were in vitro fermented using swine fecal slurries and anaerobically incubated for 12 and 24 h. The phytogenic FAs used were red ginseng barn powd...

Erythrina mulungu Benth. (Fabaceae), Cordia verbenacea A. DC. (Boraginaceae), Solanum paniculatum L. (Solanaceae) and Lippia sidoides Cham. (Verbenaceae) are medicinal plant species native to Brazil shortlisted by the Brazilian National Health System for future clinical use. However, nothing is known about their effects in metabolic and transporter proteins, which could potentially lead to herb...

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Oxidative stress and inflammatory conditions are among the pathological features associated with the central nervous system in Alzheimer׳s disease. Traditionally, medicinal plants have been used to alleviate inflammation, pains and also other symptoms possibly associated with Alzheimer׳s disease. Therefore, the present study was designed to determine the in vitro ...

conclusions results from the present study elucidated that treatment with the aqueous extract of l. citriodora leaves was well tolerated via daily ip injection at doses up to 200 mg/kg for a period of 21 days and did not produce any toxicity. the safety of l. citriodora aqueous extract was also confirmed by cell viability assay. objectives the present study evaluated the acute, subacute, and ce...

O estresse oxidativo constitui-se em uma ameaça constante para o organismo. Em virtude disto, série de defesas antioxidantes, além sistemas reparo células evoluíram com objetivo proteção contra a destruição e danos ocasionados pelos radicais livres. As plantas produzem enorme variedade antioxidantes que tendem agir dano celular por meio da remoção espécies reativas oxigênio nitrogênio. A Lippia...