Validating ethnobotanical data from underexplored traditional plant remedies provides an infinite source of new pharmaceutical chemicals. The purpose this study was to determine the phytochemical composition and several biological activities (antioxidant, anti-lipase, anti-?-amylase, anti-?-glucosidase, antimicrobial) aqueous, ethanol, hexane, acetone Artemisia scoparia leaf extracts. An exhaus...

       The essential oils of the aerial parts of three different Artemisia species (A.scoparia, A. diffusa, A. turanica ) growing wildly in the northeast of Iran were analyzed by GC-MS. Twe...

BACKGROUND Failure of adipocytes to expand during periods of energy excess can result in undesirable metabolic consequences such as ectopic fat accumulation and insulin resistance. Blinded screening studies have indicated that Artemisia scoparia (SCO) extracts can enhance adipocyte differentiation and lipid accumulation in cultured adipocytes. The present study tested the hypothesis that SCO tr...

The North American deserts were impacted by both Neogene plate tectonics and Quaternary climatic fluctuations, yet it remains unclear how these events influenced speciation in this region. We tested published hypotheses regarding the timing and mode of speciation, population structure, and demographic history of the Mojave Fringe-toed Lizard (Uma scoparia), a sand dune specialist endemic to the...

this study was carried out to investigate the effective environmental factors in the distribution of vegetation in zirkouh rangelands of qaen. after delimitation of the study area, sampling of soil and vegetation were performed using randomized- systematic method. vegetation cover was recorded by using braun-blanquet combined abundance-cover scale in each sample. within each sample, one profile...