Introduction: Some studies have demonstrated the potential of herbal drugs for the treatment of various diseases associated with impaired vascular nitric oxide (NO). For diagnosis of the mechanism of these herbal plants, it seems necessary to evaluate the herbal extracts on the Endothelium cell. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of extract of Trigonella foenum-graecum (T.foenum...

  Abstract   Introduction: Diabetes mellitus accompanies with disturbances in learning, memory, and cognitive skills in the human society and experimental animals. Considering the beneficial antidiabetic potential of Nigella sativum (NS ), this research study was conducted to evaluate the effect of chronic consumption of NS on learning and memory in diabetic rats using passive avoidance and Y-m...

to study the effect of salinity stress on seed germination and seedling growth of four medicinal plants, nigella sativa l., cannabis sativa l., trigonella foenum graecum and cynara scolymus l. an experiment was conducted in the botany laboratory of islamic azad university, birjand branch. a completely randomized design (crd) with 3 replications was used as separately for each species. treatment...

Several photosystems control leaf expansion in Alaska peas (Pisum sativum). Phytochrome is known to control expansion in dark-grown peas. But plants exposed briefly to red light are insensitive to phytochrome, an insensitivity that is itself phytochrome-produced. Leaf expansion in these plants is promoted by 440 or 630 nm of light (probably mediated by protochlorophyll). Plants grown in white f...

Background: Microbial infections and the resistance to antibacterial drugs are on the rise, and scientists are in search of the safest and most effective approach to overcome them. Medicinal plants are potentially effective against many microorganisms. Therefore, this study was planned to examine the antibacterial properties and cytotoxicity of the extracts of Allium sativum and Myrtus communis...

in order to evaluation the effect of nigella sativa supplementation on performance, immune response and some of blood parameters, a total of 192 one day old ross 308 broilers were used in a completely randomize design with four treatments, four replicates and 12 observations in each replicate. treatments included the increasing levels of zero (control), 0.4, 0.8 and 1.2 percent nigella sativa. ...

Sowing date and density are two important factors in produce of coriander. A field experiment was conducted with treatments: sowing time (5 May, 20 May, 4 June and 19 June 2009) and plant density (10, 30, 50 and 70 plants m). The experimental plots were laid out in a factorial according to a RCBD with three replications. Results showed that the effect of sowing dates and densities were signific...