Regarding the therapeutic effects and traditional applications of henna, it was tried to isolate and purify Lawsone from the leaves of henna marketed in Ahwaz city of Iran by various methods of maceration and Soxhlet extraction techniques in different polar and non-polar solvents. Maceration of the powdered leaves in hot water with stirring for around 6 hours was carried out followed by additio...

A 20-year-old female dental assistant experienced an acute dermatitis at the site of a temporary ‘henna’ tattoo that had been applied 3 days earlier. It transpired that ‘henna’ tattoos had been applied on previous occasions. After the above episode, she subsequently developed eczematous reactions on the face, neck and upper back within a few days of dyeing her hair with dark brown or black colo...

The present study elucidates the preliminary phytochemical analysis and High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) fingerprint analysis of lawsone extract of the leaves of Lawsonia inermis (henna) and evaluates their regions and products based quantitative estimations. The lawsone content has been evaluated quantitatively in two plants samples collected from Rewa and Bhopal and one comm...

The aim of this thesis was to increase our knowledge about the effects of seed origin on the timing of height growth cessation and field performance of silver birch (Betula pendula Roth) from different latitudes, with special attention paid to the browsing damage by moose in young birch plantations. The effect of seed origin latitude and sowing time on timing of height growth cessation of first...

The Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) 2b protein is a counter-defense factor and symptom determinant. Conserved domains in the 2b protein sequence were mutated in the 2b gene of strain Fny-CMV. The effects of these mutations were assessed by infection of Nicotiana tabacum, N. benthamiana, and Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype Col-0) with mutant viruses and by expression of mutant 2b transgenes in A. thal...

Mesophilic ammonia-oxidizing Archaea (AOA) are abundant in a diverse range of marine environments, including the deep ocean, as revealed by the quantification of the archaeal amoA gene encoding the alpha-subunit of the ammonia monooxygenase. Using two different amoA primer sets, two distinct ecotypes of marine Crenarchaeota Group I (MCGI) were detected in the waters of the tropical Atlantic and...