BACKGROUND Heliotropium strigosum is used in traditional medicine to manage gastrointestinal pain, respiratory distress and vascular disorders. The present study was undertaken to provide scientific evidences for these folkloric uses by in vitro experimental settings. METHODS A crude methanol extract of the Heliotropium strigosum (Hs.Cr) was tested in vitro on isolated rabbit jejunum preparat...

Heliotropium foliatum and Tournefortia humilis are transferred to Euploca Nutt. respectively as Euploca foliata comb. n. and Euploca humilis comb. n. A collection from Guyana has been recently identified as Euploca humistrata, a species previously considered a Brazilian endemic. A collection from French Guiana documents for the first time the species in that country. A key to the species of the...

Bu makalede, Heliotropium suaveolens ve myosotoides’in farklı organlarından elde edilen ekstraktların antioksidan, antimikrobiyal aktiviteleri DNA hasarı üzerine etkileri değerlendirildi. H. suaveolens’in vejetatif generatif gelişme periyotlarındaki organlarına, periyodundaki topraküstü toprakaltı organlarına hekzan, etanol etil asetat uygulanmıştır. Daha sonra bitki ekstrakları DMSO içerisinde...

Plant communities dominated by the invasive species Heliotropium curassavicum, Bassia indica and Chenopodium ambrosioides were investigated in fallow land, coastal desert land, newly reclaimed land, canal banks and old reclaimed land in the Nile Delta Mediterranean coast. A total of 19 common species were recorded in this study. They constituted 12 annual and 7 perennial species. The vegetation...