BACKGROUND This plant is very popular ingredient of local made drinks during hot summer. After drinking this drink people feels fresh, relaxed and can enjoy sound sleep. Present study was aimed to assess the sedative properties of a plant Sterculia villosa leaves. Therefore, we tried to find out the methanolic extract from the leaves of Sterculia villosa leaves having any sedative activity or n...

Coptis chinensis rhizomes (CR) are one important ingredient of traditional Chinese herbal formulas such as San-Huang-Xie-Xin-Tang which is used for treatment of cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Recent studies suggest that the extract of CR might be a potential therapeutic agent for amelioration of neurological disorders associated with oxidative stress. In the present study we aim...

The aim of this study was to prove whether Ginkgo biloba food supplements on the European market comply with pharmaceutical quality, and whether their composition satisfies the European Pharmacopoeia criteria. Medicinal products containing a standardised Ginkgo leaf extract are used for the improvement of cognitive impairment and quality of life in mild dementia. Further, Ginkgonis folium is us...

The Wnt/β-catenin pathway is a potential target for development of anabolic agents to treat osteoporosis because of its role in osteoblast differentiation and bone formation. However, there is no clinically available anti-osteoporosis drug that targets this Wnt/β-catenin pathway. In this study, we screened a library of aqueous extracts of 350 plants and identified Hovenia dulcis Thunb (HDT) ext...

OBJECTIVE Antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and venoconstrictor properties have been attributed to extracts from Aesculus hippocastanum. These unusual and diverse properties may be possibly basically linked with ability to scavenge free radicals. MATERIALS AND METHODS The scavenging capacity of dry horse chestnut extract of and escin have been investigated in vitro against superoxide anion radic...

BACKGROUND Cisplatin is one of the most effective chemotherapeutics against a wide range of cancers including head, neck, ovarian and lung cancers. But its usefulness is limited by its toxicity to normal tissues, including cells of the kidney proximal tubule. The purpose of the present study is to investigate whether the hydro-alcoholic extract of Rubia cordifolia could decrease the intensity o...

A quantitative understanding of isospin violation is an increasingly important ingredient for the extraction of the nucleon’s strange vector form factors from experimental data. We calculate the isospin violating electric and magnetic form factors in chiral perturbation theory to leading and nextto-leading order respectively, and we extract the low-energy constants from resonance saturation. Un...

Introduction Vibrato is an essential ingredient in the expressive nature of many musical instruments. Creating slight oscillations in the pitch and/or volume of the musical tone, vibrato allows a long sustained note to become more lively and dynamic. Musical instruments differ in both the technique used to create vibrato as well as the physical characteristics of the vibrato-enhanced sound prod...

Abstract Lychee (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) is an exotic fruit from Asia, recently introduced in Europe. With the increase world production of this fruit, many by-products are wasted during industrial processing, including their peels and seeds. Considering utilization as edible material a new functional ingredient, work aimed to assess nutritional phytochemical characterization, well antioxidant ...

Extraction and fractionation were carried out to concentrate the rosmarinic acid from Orthosiphon aristatus in order increase value of herbal candy formulated using polyphenolic rich extract. The herb was extracted fractionated column chromatography, then analyzed by LC-MS/MS. collected plant fractions with similar chromatographic profiles combined determined for antioxidant capacities expresse...