Application of most antibiotic growth promoters as feed additives has been banned in a lot of countries due to cross-resistance against pathogens and residues in tissues. Therefore, scientists are searching for alternatives to antibiotics nowadays. Medicinal plant extracts are one of the alternatives that have anti-microbial and growth promoting effect on poultry. In this paper, the benefits of...

Nowadays artificial light is often used in horticulture. Proper composition may have significant impact on plant properties, important from the consumer's point of view. Based experimental cultivation thyme, examination thyme leaves grown under different spectra was performed. Transmissive spectra, colorimetric dry mass yield as well biometrical properties (shape leaves) were determined. Attent...

Objective: GABAergic system is a target for various groups of medications including sedatives, anxiolytics, muscle relaxants, antidepressants and antiepileptics. Several foods or food ingredients are able to affect the by inhibition γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) degrading enzymes GABA-transaminase succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase. The purpose this study investigate inhibitory effects tea (Came...

Thyme essential oil (TEO) was extracted from dried leaves of Thymus vulgaris. The air-dried aerial parts the plant produced 1.0% yield TEO. detection this oil’s compounds performed by GC-MASS. cytotoxic activity TEO evaluated against two human cancer cell lines, namely HeLa (human epithelial cervical cancer) and MCF-7 breast carcinoma). Cells grown in 96 multi-well plates were treated with six ...

this study was conducted in order to evaluate the effect of thyme (thymus vulgaris l.) and oregano (oreganum vulgare l.) essential oils on performance, carcass characteristics, antioxidant status and blood biochemical parameters in broiler chickens. a total of 216 as-hatched broilers (ross-308) were divided into 6 treatments with 3 replications of 12 birds per each. experimental treatments were...

objective: microorganisms are responsible for many problems in industry and medicine because of biofilm formation. therefore, this study was aimed to examine the effect of thymus vulgaris (t. vulgaris) extracts on the planktonic form and biofilm structures of six pathogenic bacteria. materials and methods: antimicrobial activities of the plant extracts against the planktonic form of the bacteri...

BACKGROUND Traditional herbal medicine is a valuable resource that provides new drugs for cancer treatment. OBJECTIVES In this study we aim to screen and investigate the in vitro anti-tumor activities of ten species of plants commonly grown in Southern Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used the MTT colorimetric assay to evaluate the cytotoxic activities of the methanol extracts of these plants...