Background/Aim: The use of doxorubicin is limited due to its toxic effects on normal cells. A substance containing antioxidant properties, such as taraxacum officinale, would be useful in preventing toxicity. This study aimed evaluate the effect officinale doxorubicin-induced damage rat liver. Methods: Forty Wistar albino rats were allocated into four groups. In group 1 (control group), no trea...

Modes of reproduction vary considerably in the genus Taraxacum. In particular, extent and distribution sexuality are decisive criteria for evaluation variation taxonomic conclusions this complicated genus. Taraxacum sect. Borealia is widespread Arctic Subarctic regions Asiatic part Russia, but sexual has not been known to occur there, unlike T. Arctica with a number sexually reproducing species...

A taxonomic revision of the Xiphinema americanum species complex has necessitated a reexamination of the host range of species in the complex before recommendations can be made with confidence on the likelihood that specific crops will be damaged. Toward this end, populations of X. americanum and X. rivesi collected from apple orchards in eastern and western New York state were evaluated after ...

According to currently available data, 159 species of genus Taraxacum F. H. Wigg. were reported for North-West Russia (i. e. within the city Saint-Petersburg, Leningrad Region, Pskov and Novgorod Region), but among them specimens only 126 identified with reliability. Five are in this article as new Russia, a whole: T. acervatulum Rail., hepaticum macranthoides G. E. Haglund, sertatum Kirschner,...

Market share and quality, or customer satisfaction, go hand in hand. Yet it is hard to find in the literature a clear formal statement to the effect that higher market share indicates higher quality. Indeed, such an inference would need detailed information about customer behavior. Moreover, even when that data is available, the validity of the inference is cast in doubt by common modes of beha...