Background and Objective: Many studies show that there is a relationship between asthma and obesity. Weight management is important in patients with asthma. In some countries, people used Portulaca oleracea seeds for lose weight. The experiment is designed to study the effect of Portulaca oleracea seeds on anthropometric measurements in asthmatic patients with overweight and obesity. Material a...

Santapau & Hennery reported four species of Portulaca found in all over India namely P. oleracea, pilosa, quadrifida and wightiana, among these oleracea pilosa further divided variety sub or race by Sivarajan Manilal Geesink respectively. In the present investigation author has experienced that var. linearifloia proposed adequate amount different characters right now from habit, morphology,...

this experiment was conducted in germinator in order to study the effects of water potential on seed germination, rate of germination and seedlings growth of four medicinal plants (coriandrum sativum, plantago psyllium, discorinia sophia and portulaca oleracea). four water potential inclouding distilled water as control (0), -0.37, -0.59 and –0.81 mpa which made by different salts (nacl, cacl2 ...

The essential oil composition of Peumus boldus and Drimys winterii was analyzed by means of capillary GC-FID and GC-MS. More than 96% of the total oil components (43 and 54 compounds, respectively) were identified, with ascaridole (51.17 ± 9.51), p-cymene (16.31 ± 2.52) and 1,8-cineole (14.45 ± 2.99) as the main compounds in P. boldus and g-eudesmol (21.65 ± 0.41), followed of elemol (12.03 ± 0...

to study allelopathic effects of iranian walnut (juglans regia l.) on germination and initial growth of purslane (portulaca oleracea) and redroot pigweed (amaranthus retroflexus) an experiment was conducted in shahed university. the result showed that fresh leaf had negatively effected on radicle length. also, with increasing extract concentrations of persian walnut, the seed germination and se...

*Corresponding author’s e-mail: [email protected]. 1College of Animal Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia 028000, China. 2Key Laboratory of Zoonosis Res., Ministry of Education, Institute of Zoonosis, Jilin University,Changchun 130062, China. 3College of Food Science and Engineering, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun,130118, Jilin...

objective: diabetes plays an important role in the progression of tissue damage. influencing factors of the cellular matrix can lead to changes in the structure and function of tissues or their failure. herbal consumption can be effective in reducing tissue failure. the aim of the this study is to research the effect portulaca oleracea seeds on the levels of matrix metalloproteinase 2, 9 and ti...

Portulaca oleracea Protects H9c2 Cardiomyocytes Against Doxorubicin-Induced Toxicity by Inhibition of Oxidative Stress and Apoptosis