The present study describes the reproductive ecology of the prostrate shrub Juniperus sabina and the dwarf shrub Artemisia santolinifolia in dry mountain steppes of southern Mongolia. Whereas stands of the juniper are located at the drought limit of the genus’ distributional range, the genus Artemisia is typical of central Asian drylands. Both species produce large numbers of reproductive organ...

Haemonchus contortus is the most detrimental gastrointestinal parasite in small ruminants worldwide. The problem is increasing due to the developing resistance of the parasite to commercially available anthelmintics. Medicinal plants with their biologically-active compounds may provide a viable alternative to synthetic anthelmintics, but sound scientific evaluation of such compounds is lacking....

OBJECTIVES weight loss as a consecution of losing appetite in post-operative patients and those suffering from HIV, cancer, cachexia and inflammatory diseases are the main inducements of morbidity and mortality. There is an increasing demand for more efficacious and endurable appetite stimulating treatment for patients with cachexia. Health economics is influenced by the malnutrition which was ...

Actin is the second major structure protein of muscle. It is characterized by its ability to combine with myosin and to occur in two forms, globular and fibrous actin (9, 10, 3), which are indicated as Gand Factin. The transition of Ginto F-actin is brought about by addition of salt at neutral or weakly alkaline reaction (9, 10, 4). The present paper describes a method of purifying actin by pre...

background and objectives: the artemisia genus of asteraceae family is represented by 34 species in iran. artemisia sieberi grows wild in different regions of iran and grows in desert and semi- desert climate and has forage value for animals and also medicinal properties for humans. in this study we examined the antimicrobial effects of a. sieberi. materials and methods: the antimicrobial activ...

The diversity of ten populations representing Artemisia monosperma and A. judaica has been analyzed, based on assessment of morphological, karyological and molecular variations. The analysis of morphological variation and molecular polymorphism as revealed by RAPD, using the software NTSYSpc-2.01, confirmed the differentiation of A. monosperma and A. judaica as two distinct species and showed w...