objective: hydatidosis is one of the most important zoonotic diseases and surgery is still the main treatment for this problem. one of the side effects of hydatid cyst surgery is recurrence, thus, searching and assessment of some new agents such as medicinal plant extracts are very important. in the present study, the scolicidal effect of ethanolic extract of ziziphora tenuior l. (z. tenuior) w...

Background and objectives: Ziziphora tenuior is considered as an appropriate protoscolicidal agent yet the mechanism of such effect is not known so far. The aim of this study was to evaluate the apoptotic effect of Z. tenuior extract on protoscolices of hydatid cyst. Methods: Protoscolices were collected aseptically and the Bradford test was e...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the antibacterial effects of thymus vulgaris, thymus caramanicus, zataria multiflora, ziziphora clinopodioides and ziziphora tenuior against four foodborne and four other bacteria including staphylococcus aureus, shigella dysenteriae, salmonella typhimurium, escherichia coli, staphylococcus epidermidis, bacillus subtilis, mrsa and pseudomona aeruginosa and ...

Objective: Hydatidosis is one of the most important zoonotic diseases and surgery is still the main treatment for this problem. One of the side effects of hydatid cyst surgery is recurrence, thus, searching and assessment of some new agents such as medicinal plant extracts are very important. In the present study, the scolicidal effect of ethanolic extract of Ziziphora tenuior L. (Z. tenuior) w...

1. Departement of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kazerun Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kazerun, Iran. 2. Traditional and Complementary Medicine Research Center, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran 3. School of Veterinary Medicine, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran,. 4. Department of Biotechnology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Ferdowsi Univer...

ziziphora tenuior has been used in iranian folk medicine as an analgesic and for treament of digestive diseases.this study was designed to investigate the antinociceptive effects of hydroalcoholic extract of z. tenuior on visceral pain and its possible involvement in opioidergic and serotoninergic systems in male albino n-mri mice. antinociceptive effect of was determined by writhing test as a ...

BACKGROUND Ziziphora tenuior L. known as Kakuti in Persian, is used in traditional medicine for fever, dysentery, uterus infection and as an analgesic. It is used also in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders as carminative, or remedy of diarrhea or nausea. Major components of plant essential oil including pulegone, isomenthone, thymol, menthone, and piperitone are suggested to be respons...