BACKGROUND Scrophularia striata (Scrophulariaceae family) is an herbaceous plant that is traditionally used for treatment of microbial infections. OBJECTIVES Antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of different extracts (methanolic, ethanolic, aqueous and ethyl acetate) from S. striata aerial parts was evaluated. MATERIALS AND METHODS The antimicrobial activity of different extracts from S. ...

Introduction. – Bletilla striata (Thunb.) Reichb. f. (Orchidaceae) is mainly distributed in East Asia, and its tubers are used as a Chinese traditional medicine for the treatment of tuberculosis and haemorrhage of the stomach or lung [1]. Previous phytochemical studies on Bletilla species have led to the isolation of phenanthrene derivatives [2 – 11], bibenzyls [2] [4], flavonoids and phenolic ...

BACKGROUND The cause of death in burn patients after 48 hours of hospitalization has been reported to be bacterial infections. Recently, due to the compounds accelerating the healing process and the intense reduction of treatment side effects, medicinal plants are used to cure burn wound infections. This study aims to investigate the medicinal effect of the ethanolic extract of Scrophularia str...

Effective sustainable algal cultivation techniques are essential for mass production of the marine microalga Tetraselmis for biofuel and array of co-products. The phycospheric communities affect the microalgal growth and metabolism through various allelochemical and nutrient interactions; hence, their potential to affect the quantity and quality of both biomass and bioproducts is significant. I...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of Scrophularia striata water extract on the quality and shelf life of the rainbow trout fillet during superchilled storage. Fish samples were treated with 1% and 3% S. striata water extract and then stored at -2°C for 20 days. The samples were analyzed periodically for chemical, microbial and sensory characteristics. Results indicated that ...

The nigrostriatal dopaminergic projection is crucial for the striatal processing of motor information received from the cortex. Lesion of this pathway in rats causes locomotor alterations that resemble some of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease and significantly alters the excitatory transmission in the striatum. We performed in vitro electrophysiological recordings to study the effects of uni...

This study presents the first record of Martesia striata (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Mediterranean Sea. It was detected during a routine monitoring study in the Iskenderun Bay, Turkey. The potential for M. striata to establish permanent population in the Mediterranean Sea and possible risks that might arise from such a situation were briefly discussed.

SUMMARY Neuroacanthocytosis is a rare hereditary disorder characterized by involuntary choreiform movements and erythrocytic acanthocytosis in the peripheral blood. Clinical manifestations of this disorder resemble those of Huntington disease (HD). Neuroimaging features of neuroacanthocytosis are atrophy and signal intensity change of the striata on MR imaging, as in HD. We report herein the ca...

Conservation is imperative for the Asian snakeheads Channa striata, as the species has been overfished due to its high market demand. Using maternal markers (mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 gene (COI)), we discovered that evolutionary forces that drove population divergence did not show any match between the genetic and morphological divergence pattern. However, there is evidence o...

background: we evaluated the effect of the ethanolic extract of scrophularia striata on the iranian strain of leishmania major (mrho/ir/75/er) both in vitro and in vivo conditions methods: the effective dose (ed) of ethanolic extract of s. striata were determined using  mtt assay  on the growth of promastigote forms of  l. major in axenic culture media. then, the ed 50 of  s. striata on mice pe...