CONTEXT Insects can be the cause of major ecological problems; they can transmit microbes and parasites that affect humans, and damage food crops, trees, and homes. The total economic cost of insect-related damage and disease is immeasurable. In traditional Iranian medicine (TIM), several medicinal plants have been identified as insecticides or insect repellents, but many of them are still unkn...

The common five weed species Datura stramonium L., Solanum nigrum L., Brassica kaber (DC), Capsella bursapastoris L. and Malva parviflora L., were tested for their susceptibility to an isolate of TYLCSV from Murcia, Spain (TYLCSV-ES), using the B-, Qand S-biotypes of Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius). Both, Band Q-biotypes were shown to transmit TYLCSV-ES from infected tomato to S. nigrum and D. stram...

BACKGROUND Malva verticillata seeds are used as a therapeutic medicine to treat kidney dysfunction in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). TCM has suggested that herbal medicine tonifying kidney function may have beneficial effect on bone metabolism. METHODS Osteoclastogenesis was examined in bone marrow macrophages by measuring tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) activity and counting ...

This study evaluated the effect of Artemisia absinthium and Malva sylvestris on antioxidant response histopathological changes in abomasa Haemonchus contortus infected lambs. Twenty-four lambs were divided into four groups: unsupplemented (UNS), supplemented with A. (ART), M. (MAL), both plants (ARTMAL). Lambs orally approximately 5000 third-stage (L3) larvae H. contortus. The experiment was co...