natural antioxidants have an important role in the prevention of many age-related diseases and promotion of health. among natural antioxidants from plants, flavonoids and other phenolic compounds are potent antioxidants and chelating agents. moringa peregrina (forssk.) fiori (moringaceae) is a small desert tree distributed from tropical africa to east india. moringa tree is also growing in sout...

volatile constituents of the seed kernel and leaf of cultivated moringa peregrina (forssk.) fiori, agricolt collected after hydrolysis were analyzed by gc and gc/ms. five glucosinolate degradation products which constituted almost the whole isolated oil of the seed kernel were identified to be: isobutyl isothiocyanate (94.0%), isopropyl isothiocyanate (4.9%), sec-butyl isothiocyanate (0.5%), n-...

seeds of moringa peregrina (forssk.) fiori. (moringaceae) is widely used in south east of iran for gastrointestinal disorders. however, so far there is no pharmacological evidence for antispasmodic activity of this plant extract. therefore, the aim of this research was to investigate antispasmodic activity of m. peregrina on rat isolated ileum contraction. hydroalcoholic extract was obtained by...

The present study was conducted to investigate genetic diversity between and within of six populations with different individual numbers of cultivated and non-cultivated provenances of  Moringa peregrina (Forssk.) Fiori and Moringa oleifera Lam. using RAPD, ISSR and various combinations of RAPD and ISSR primers in one multiplex PCR (R-ISSR). 10 primers that produced clear and ...

This study was conducted to assess the in vivo and ex vivo immunomodulatory effect of the ethanol leaves extract of Moringa peregrina in Balb/c mice. For this study, five groups of 5 Balb/c mice were given a single acute subtoxic oral dose of the ethanolic extract at 1.13, 11.30, 23.40 and 113.4 mg/kg and the immunomodulatory effect was assessed on the 6th day following the ingestion. In the (n...

The Moringa is a fast-growing evergreen or deciduous, multipurpose tree species comprised of 13 species. They are thought to be native to India from where they have been introduced in many different tropical and subtropical countries and are now growing throughout the world including Saudi Arabia (Moringa peregrina a native species). Moringa tree is regarded as an excellent source of nutrition ...

moringaceae, a monogeneric family in capparales (glucosinolate-containing species), includes 14 species. one of them is moringa peregrina (forssk.) fiori., a small tree, which grows in south east of iran. volatile constituents of seed coat and stem of m. peregrina were determined by gc and gc/ms. moreover, extracts of seed and different cultured cells were analyzed by tlc and gc. three volatile...