76 ethanolic extracts of medicinal herbs from the Jordanian flora, belonging to 67 species and 34 families, were evaluated for their antiproliferative activity on a breast cancer cell line (MCF7). The cells were cultured in RPMI 1640 medium and incubated with the extracts for 72 hours. Sulphorhodamine B (SRB) assay was used to test cytotoxicity. From the tested crude extracts, Inula graveolens,...

OBJECTIVES Annual incidence of cutaneous leishmaniasis is increasingly growing and development of the alternative drugs against it is a major concern. Artemisia genus is a traditional medicinal plant in Iran. The aim of this study was to examine the leishmanicidal activity of various Iranian Artemisia species extracts. MATERIALS AND METHODS Different extracts were gathered from eleven Iranian...

The silver-leaf nightshade nenmtode, Nothanguina phyllobia, is a promising biological control agent for its only reported host, Solanum elaeagnifolium Cav. When infective larvae of N. phyllobia and stem tissue of 39 econmnically important plant species were suspended in 0.5% water agar, nematodes aggregated about S. elaeagnifolium, Solanum carolinense L., Solanum melongena L., Solanum tuberosum...

Abstract HPLC (high-performance liquid chromatography) is one of the accurate chromatographic techniques that widely used for analysis. This present review submitted extraction and methods determining compound in Melastomataceae Asteraceae families related with insecticidal compounds. discusses standard conditions. There are several species under both families. As family, Melastoma malabathricu...

Santolina chameacyparissus (Santo) is an evergreen plant which traditionally used for its anti-inflammatory effects in various diseases. In this study, we aimed to explore the of Santo non-small cell lung cancer cells. We extracted volatile oil from and evaluated cytotoxicity, apoptosis, motility extract on two (NSCLC) lines; one a patient derived other commercially available A549 also identifi...