abstract background: understanding the electrophysiological effects of toxins, may facilitate new drugs discovery. buthotusschach (bs) has been shown to be one of the most dangerous scorpions in tropical part of iran. present study was aimed to investigate the electrophysiological effects of two active fractions (f4 and f6) isolated from bs scorpion toxin on action potential (ap) characteristic...

the high costs of experimental works on the nanocomposites can be reduced through implementation of analytical and numerical studies. to study the effect of impact energy on the nanocomposites, a nanocomposite composedof polyurethane and clay nanoparticles is selected as a case study. the finite element modeling is carried out using the ansys software, and the impact analysis is performed using...

plant-derived natural products are known to have cancer chemo-preventive and chemo-therapeutic properties. plant extracts or their active constituents are used as folk medicine in traditional therapies by 80% of the world population. the aim of the present study was to determine the anti-proliferative potential of fumaria vaillantii extracts on three different cancer cell lines including malign...

objective: the present study is aimed to investigate in vitro thrombolytic activity of three bangladeshi medicinal plants averrhoa bilimbi (oxalidiaceae), clerodendrum viscosum (verbanaceae) and drynaria quercifolia (polypodiaceae). materials and methods: each the plant was extracted with methanol at room temperature and the concentrated methanolic extracts (mef) were fractionated by the modifi...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Medicinal plants belong to Lamiaceae family are potential sources of new drugs to improve the treatment of diseases which its treatment is linked to anti-oxidative agents. In this paper, antioxidant potentials of some Lamiaceae species have been evaluated by two methods. Methods: phosphomolybdate assay for total antioxidant capacity and ferric reducing a...