Background The aim of present study was to evaluate antileishmanial effects of Lavandula angustifolia (L. angustifolia) and Rosmarinus officinalis (R. officinalis) medicinal plants essential oils and nano-emulsions on Leishmania major (L. major). Methods The present study was performed in Leishmaniasis Reference Lab at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran during 2016-2017. The IC50...

Essential oils possess a variety of biological properties (i.e., antioxidant, antibacterial, and cytotoxic) that could possibly be applied in reproductive medicine, but their effects on spermatozoa are still partially unknown. The aim of the study was to describe the effects of Thymbra capitata (L.) Cav. and Rosmarinus officinalis (L.) essential oils on the main morpho-functional parameters of ...

Antioxidants are widely used in food products to preserve deterioration of their lipid components. Lately the nutraceutical properties of such compounds have driven much attention for their relationship with human health, and then natural antioxidants are preferred. Among natural antioxidants, rosemary (rosmarinus officinalis L.) has been described as one of the spices with higher antioxidant a...

Rosmarinic acid (RA), an ester of caffeic acid and 3,4-dihydrophenyllactic acid (Figure 1), is a naturally occurring phenylpropanoid that is commonly found in species of the Boraginaceae family, the subfamily Nepetoideae of the Lamiaceae family, and in lower plants such as ferns and hornworts (Petersen and Simmonds, 2003). RA was first isolated and purified in 1958 from Rosmarinus officinalis b...