Pharmacology at the Jagiellonian University was taught since the foundation of the University in 1364 under then used names of medical botany and pharmacognosy. The first in Poland Division of Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy was created in 1857. Modern era in the history of pharmacology in Krakow starts in 1929 when Prof. Janusz Supniewski became the Head of the Department. He was the relentless...

Title: The Marine-Derived Polyketide Endoperoxide 1 Plakortide F Acid Mediates its Antifungal Activity by 2 Interfering with Calcium Homeostasis 3 4 5 Authors: Tao Xu, Qin Feng, Melissa R. Jacob, Bharathi Avula, Melanie M. Mask, 6 Scott R. Baerson, Siddharth K. Tripathi, Rabab Mohammed, Mark T. 7 Hamann, Ikhlas A. Khan, Larry A. Walker, Alice M. Clark, and 8 Ameeta K. Agarwal 9 10 11 Institutio...

Herbal therapies have become an integral part of the American health care scene. Since 1991, public use of herbal products has increased quite markedly, with over $5 billion spent annually. This does not include the many (up to 25%) pharmaceutical products used in conventional practice that originally were, and in some cases still are, derived from plants (Table 69.1). The perennial appeal of h...

This paper deals with the pharmacognosy of Hyptis suaveolens leaf including its morphological, anatomical, chemical constituents and powder analysis. Contrary to earlier reports, the leaves are amphistomatic. Stomata are diacytic, a few being isotricytic and ansiotricytic. Four types of trichomes have been noted. The venation is semicraspidodromous. Midrib consists of one large moon shaped and ...

1Qasemi Research Center, Al-Qasemi Academic College, P.O. Box 124, 30100 Baqa Al-Gharbiyye, Israel 2Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Arab American University of Jenin, P.O. Box 240, Jenin, State of Palestine 3Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Middle East Cancer Consortium, Haifa, Israel 4The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada 5Maryland Technology...

R.I. MOLDOVAN, R. OPREAN, D. BENEDEC, D. HANGANU, M. DUMA, I. ONIGA, L. VLASE Department of Analytical Chemistry, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 8,V. Babes Street, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Department of Pharmacognosy, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 8, V. Babes Street, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics,“I...

Cordia rothii Roem. & Schult. bark has reputation of being effective in heart ailments in Saurashtra region of Gujarat. The investigation was undertaken to study the microscopy, chemical constituents and pharmacological actions of Cordia rothii Roem. & Schult. bark. Phytochemical analysis of different bark extracts revealed the presence of alkaloids, glycoalkaloids, coumarins and inorganic salt...