Objective(s): The objective of this study was to evaluate pharmacological effect of Calligonum polygonoides against Krait snake’s venom acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and to extent it for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Materials and Methods: Acetylcholinesterase activity was measured using Ellman method with some modification. The kinetic studies of methanolic extract of C. polygonoides aga...

Calligonum comosum Family Polygonaceae is a perennial shrub that grows in the desert areas Saudi Arabia. The plant extensively used for economic purposes and traditional medicine. tanning hides wound. current study aims to provide scientific evidence wound healing potential. was extracted with methanol at room temperature water by decoction against two Gram-positive bacterial strains; Bacillus ...

Doxorubicin (DOX) is an anthracycline antibiotic widely used as a chemotherapeutic agent in the treatment of several tumours. However, its cardiac toxicity limits its use at maximum therapeutic doses. Most studies implicated increased oxidative stress as the major determinant of DOX cardiotoxicity. The local Saudi flora is very rich in a variety of plants of quite known folkloric or traditional...

BACKGROUND Water influences various physiological and ecological processes of plants in different ecosystems, especially in desert ecosystems. The purpose of this study is to investigate the response of physiological and morphological acclimation of two shrubs Haloxylon ammodendron and Calligonum mongolicunl to variations in irrigation intervals. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The irrigation ...

Calligonum comosum, a Tunisian plant from arid regions, is traditionally used in folk medicine to treat rural population microbial infections. The plant was investigated in vitro for its ability to inhibit the growth of Listeria ivanovii. Various aqueous and organic extracts were prepared from different plant tissues. Results indicated that ethanolic, methanolic and acetonic extracts from whole...

Calligonum is the only C4 genus within Polygonaceae. We applied DNA sequences from nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (nrITS) and five plastid genome regions (psbA-trnH, ycf6-psbM, trnL-F, rpl32-trnL rbcL) to reconstruct phylogeny of Calligonum. The nrITS combined were analysed separately. supports treatment mongolicum complex as a single species with intra-specific geographic struct...