An extinct kind of winged fruit found at several Eocene sites in California and Oregon, western USA, occurs association with pinnately compound anacardiaceous leaves that have been called Rhus mixta. The samaras were previously treated along isolated from the Chalk Bluffs flora an sapindaceous genus, Thouiniopsis myricaefolia (Lesquereux) MacGinitie. However, are nonschizocarpic hence readily d...

Pure culture experiments were conducted to assess the bacteriostatic and bactericidal effects of phlorotannins (PT) isolated from Ascophyllum nodosum (brown seaweed) on Escherichia coli O157:H7. In Exp. 1, one non-O157:H7 strain (25922) and three strains of E. coli O157:H7 (3081, EDL933 and E318N) were cultured in M9 medium with PT included at 0 (control), 25, 50 or 100 μg/ml (n = 3). Bacterial...

BACKGROUND Though herbal medicines have been used for cancer prevention and treatment, their scientific evidences still remain unclear so far. Thus, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) project has been actively executed to reveal the scientific evidences in the USA and other countries. In the present study, we elucidated antitumor mechanism of Chijongdan, an oriental prescription of Rh...