introduction: macrophomina phaseolina is the causal agent of soybean charcoal rot. this disease is one of the most prevalent and destructive of soybean in the north of iran. this pathogen has broad host range and invades more than 500 plant species of 75 families, such as caprifoliaceae. symptoms on stems appear as silver-gray lesions near the base, which eventually decay the stem. plants show ...

Objective:Coriandrum sativum (C. sativum) as a medicinal plant has been pointed to have analgesic, hypnotic and anti-oxidant effects. In the current study, a possible preventive effect of the hydro-alcoholic extract of the plant on neuronal damages was examined in pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) rat model of seizure.Materials and Methods: Forty male rats were divided into five main groups and treated ...

Reactive oxygen species [ROS] cause oxidative damage to the tissues and protection from such damages are provided by endogenous and exogenous antioxidants. Plant based antioxidants are preferred due to the multiple mechanisms of actions and of the phytochemicals present in them. 80% alcoholic extract of leaves of Aloe vera, Bacopa monniera, Moringa oleifera and rhizome of Zingiber officinale wa...

Background and Objective: Recent studies have shown that anticholinergic alkaloids compounds have strong analgesic effects. Due to presence of anticholinergic alkaloids in Hyoscyamus niger and its mentioned effects in Iranian traditional medicine, its analgesic effects were assessed. At first, acute and chronic pain thresholds in male NMRI rats with formalin test was evaluated, then oral and in...

OBJECTIVES Ethnopharmacological field surveys demonstrated that many plants, such as Gentiana olivieri, Helichrysum graveolens, Helichrysum plicatum ssp. plicatum, Juniperus oxycedrus ssp. oxycedrus, Juniperus communis var. saxatilis, Viscum album (ssp. album, ssp. austriacum), are used as traditional medicine for diabetes in different regions of Anatolia. The present study was designed to eval...

Water and alcoholic extracts of Crotalaria juncea L. plant were tested for their antimicrobial properties in vitro against some selected human pathogenic bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, and Staphylococcus aureus by agar well diffusion method and were subjected to brine shrimp lethality assay to detect their cytotoxic ability. In addition, the anticancer properties of ...

aloe buettneri a. berger is commonly used in traditional togolese medicine to treat inflammatory and gastric ulcers. the present study examined the gastro-protection effect of the hydro-alcoholic extract of a. buettneri on mucus production and gastric ph. a gastric ulcer is induced by ethanol 95° alone (1 ml/kg body weight), after pre-treatment with indomethacin (300 mg/kg) or by utilising l-na...

ferula gummosa boiss is a good source of biologically active compounds such as monoterpene and sesquiterpene derivatives. there are also several reports on antioxidant effects of these compounds. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of daily administration of f. gummosa root hydro-alcoholic extract on serum oxidant-antioxidant status. twenty four wistar rats were randomly divided...