BACKGROUND Portulaca oleracea (PO) has been widely used as traditional medicine because of its pharmacological activities. However, the effects of PO on osteoclasts that modulate bone homeostasis are still elusive. METHODS In this study, we examined the effects of PO ethanol extract (POEE) on receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand (RANKL)-mediated Ca(2+) mobilization, nuclear factor o...

According to the survey, wild purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) has two different ecotypes, one with red stem living in an arid environment and green a humid environment. In order explore physiological response strategies of plants environmental changes, these ecotypes were selected as experimental materials. Physiological indices determined transcriptome analysis was carried out screen differen...

Objective(s) Portulaca oleracea L. is a herbaceous weed from portulacaceae family. It can be found in many parts of the world. Modern pharmacological studies have demonstrated that P. oleracea have antioxidant effects. The protective effect of aqueous and ethanolic extract of P. oleracea against cisplatin-induced renal toxicity was studied in rats. Materials and Methods Single intraperitonea...

169 Abstract Two proteinous compounds (A and B) were isolated by gel filtration chromatography of the acetone precipitate of the aqueous extract of Portulaca oleracea L. plant. Comparative apparent molecular weights determination by gel filtration using standard proteins gave a value of 28184 and 2291 dalton respectively.The effect of the isolated proteinous compounds A , B and the hormone of i...

Purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) is a fleshy herbaceous plant. So far, little information is available on the response of this plant to combined drought and heat stress. In this study, changes in physiological and metabolic levels were characterized after treatments with drought, heat and combined stresses. Both individual and combined stress treatments increased malondialdehyde (MDA), electrol...

The virus earlier reported from spinach (S. oleracea) from Yugoslavia under the tentative name of spinach latent virus has been shown — by symptomatology in test plants, properties in sap, transmission through seed and serological reactions — to be identical with the ilarvirus characterised under the same name in the Netherlands. After mechanical inoculation the Yugoslav isolate (SpLV/ /H) of s...