FREE-LIVING SOIL NEMATODE POPULATION DIVERSITY DYNAMICS AT AN ASIMINA TILOBA SITE IN VIRGINIA. Sarah R. Marzec & Theresa M. Grana, Department of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg VA, 22401. Nematodes are microscopic roundworms that are highly successful in many environments. The model organism Caenorhabditis elegans is specifically a free-living nematode which can be...

The present research was planned to characterize the aroma composition of important members of the Lamiaceae family such as Salvia officinalis, Lavandula angustifolia and Mentha asiatica. Aroma components of the S. officinalis, L. angustifolia and M. asiatica were extracted with the purge and trap technique with dichloromethane and analyzed with the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) ...

BACKGROUND Nigella sativa (black cumin) and Cinnamomum cassia (Cinnamon) are an integral part of the Indian diet, and have also been sourced in the ayurveda, the traditional Indian system of medicine, for their medicinal properties. Both the herbs individually have been successfully evaluated for their preliminary antidiabetic potential. OBJECTIVE Herein, we dived deeper into antidiabetic pro...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cytotoxic effect of a hexane extract of Cassia alata leaves in A549 lung cancer cells. METHOD Parental A549 lung cancer cells were exposed to various concentrations (100-180 microg/ml) of Cassia alata leaf extract for 24 hours. Following treatment, the cells were evaluated using the 3-(4, 5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2, 5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay to determi...

The anatomical and morphological parameters of the leaf blade Forsythia suspensa were investigated to determine species’ stability in Kyiv metropolis (Ukraine) conditions monitor environmental pollution. leaves F. selected at four monitoring sites Kyiv, which differed their distance highways intensity traffic. histological structure changed toward xeromorphism variants where plants exposed incr...

Bu çalışmada Lamiaceae familyasına ait Salvia candidissima Vahl türüne S. subsp. candidisma ve occidentalis alt türleri morfolojik, anatomik, tohum mikromorfolojisi açısından değerlendrilmiştir. Morfolojik çalışmalarda türlerin; gövde, yaprak, çiçek meyve kısımlarının ölçümleri yapılmıştır. Anatomik incelemelerde, türün kök, gövde yapraklarından, mikrotom el ile kesitler alınarak boyanmış daimi...

The morphology of the leaves of angiosperms exhibits remarkable diversity. One of the factors showing the greatest variability is the leaf index, namely, the ratio of leaf length to leaf width. In some cases, different varieties of a single species or closely related species can be distinguished by differences in leaf index. To some extent, the leaf index reflects the morphological adaptation o...

BACKGROUND Cinnamomum cassia bark is a popular culinary spice used for flavoring and in traditional medicine. C. cassia extract (CE) induces apoptosis in many cell lines. In the present study, particular differences in the mechanism of the anti-proliferative property of C. cassia on two breast cancer cell lines, MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231, were elucidated. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The hexane ...

Cassia fistula Linnis a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Indian subcontinent and adjacent regions of Southeast Asia. The aim of this study is to overview its therapeutic effects than its nutritive and industrial effects. This review article was carried out by searching studies in PubMed, Medline, Web of Science, and IranMedex databases up to 2016.totally, of 100 found artic...