OBJECTIVES Trichomoniasis is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in humans and is caused by the protozoan Trichomonas vaginalis. Nowadays, increasing resistance to drugs such as metronidazole resulted in many problem, so new effective remedies are needed. In this study, we evaluate constituents of essential oil and anti-trichomonas activity of Rheum ribes. MATERIALS AND METHO...

Rhubarb (Dahuang in Chinese), a well-known chinese herbal medicine, has long been used in the world and is officially listed in Chinese Pharmacopoeia which containing three species, Rheum palmatum L., Rheum officinale Bail and Rheum tanguticum Maxim. ex Balf. [1]. It is also formally listed in European and Japanese Pharmacopoeia [2,3]. This important herbal medicine has been discerned for centu...

Rheum species are medicinally important herbs, posses several type of biological activities due to the presence of anthraquinone derivatives. Several HPLC methods have been used for sepeatation of anthraquinone of Rheum Species. In most cases anthraquinones were separated using C18 column as a stationary phase, acetonitrile, water and methanol with or without acid as mobile phase at 1.0 ml/min ...

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Michael J. Ezell,1 Stanley N. Johnson,1 Yong Yu,2 Véronique Perraud,1 Emily A. Bruns,1 M. Lizabeth Alexander,3 Alla Zelenyuk,3 Donald Dabdub,4 and Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts1 1Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA 2Currently at California Air Resources Board, El Monte, California, USA 3Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest Nat...

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