objective: profound consumption of medicinal plants products worldwide and public misconception of the products safety puts the urgent need forward as to evaluation of their safe and harmful aspects. in the present study the lavandula angustifolia essential oil was studied with a view to the foregoing criteria. materials and methods: the antimicrobial, antioxidative, hematologic and cytotoxic ...

objective: despite toxic effects of some essential oils, their use is not under control. with a view to increasing trend of utilisation of herbal products, some biological aspects of thymus daenensis are repoted here for the first time. materials and methods: antimicrobial properties using disk diffusion and dilution tests, nitric oxide radical scavenging by marcocci et al method and cytotoxic...

the current study evaluated the general toxicity, antioxidant, antimicrobial, and cytotoxic activity of extracts obtained from the rhizomes of eremostachys azerbaijanica (labiatae) as well as analyzed the potent extracts using gc-ms. extracts of e. azerbaijanica in n-hexane, dichloromethane (dcm) and methanol (meoh) were prepared using a soxhlet apparatus. the antioxidant activity of the extrac...

new sulfonamide and amide derivatives containing coumarin moieties; oxo-2h-chromen-sulfamoylphenylacetamides and oxo-2h-chromen-arylacetamides were synthesized starting from diverse 2-chloroacetamide derivatives and a wide range of coumarins. the structures of the obtained compounds were elucidated by ir and nmr spectra and also analytical elemental analysis. in the next step, the above mention...

sericostoma pauciflorum stocks ex wight(family boraginaceae) used against cancer, diabetes and known to be health promoter. callus cultures have been established from the stem explants on murashige and skoog (ms) medium supplemented with 1.5 mg/l concentration of different growth hormone viz. kinetin (kn), indole 3-acetic acid (iaa) and indole 3-butyric acid (iba). at 6 weeks of age, these call...

conclusions p. spinosa ethanol extract can be used as a mouthwash for treatment of the oral infections. more clinical and toxicological studies are required for providing its efficacy. results p. spinosa ethanol extract with higher-level phenolic and flavonoid contents showed the highest antioxidant and antimicrobial effects, in comparison with the other extracts. bacillus sp. and streptococcus...

Background and objectives: Lamiaceae members have long been used in Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM) for their various medicinal properties. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant capacity and antimicrobial activity as well as the total phenolic content (TPC) of the various extracts and fractions of two Iranian endemic Micromeria (M. persica and <em...

Background: Natural substances that were initially obtained from plants once regarded as a beneficial source of possible medicinal agents and recognized crucial in the development human diseases. The current study sought to determine whether hydroalcoholic extracts Garcinia cambogia plant fruits included any bioactive substances. Materials Methods: collected, shade-dried, ground into fine powde...

Pyrazole is a five membered heterocyclic ring which is a versatile leading compound for designing potent bioactive agents. This interesting group of compounds has diverse biological activities such as antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anticonvulsant, anticancer, anthelmintic, antioxidant and herbicidal. Results of numerous derivatives of different pyrazole and their substitutions are...