The antioxidant activity of different Satureja montana L. subsp. kitaibelii extracts was tested by measuring their ability to scavenge reactive hydroxyl radical during the Fenton reaction, using ESR spectroscopy. Also, the influence of these extracts on lipid peroxyl radicals obtained during lipid peroxidation of: (I) sunflower oil (37 C, 3h) induced by 4,4'-azobis(4-cyanovaleric acid) (ACVA) a...

Antibacterial properties and chemical characterization of the essential oils from summer savory (Satureja hortensis) extracted by microwave-assisted hydrodistillation (MAHD) were compared with those of the essential oils extracted using the traditional hydrodistillation (HD) method. While MAHD at 660 W required half as much time as HD needed, similar antibacterial efficacies were found from the...

A specimen of Agapetes from Myanmar is described and illustrated as grandiflora Hook.f., a result comparison with A. burmanica W.E.Evans, macrantha (Hook.) Hook.f. variegata (Roxb.) D.Don ex G.Don. This species has extrafloral nectaries on the margins young leaves at apex calyx lobes.

The different responses of plant species to resource stress are keys to understand the dynamics of plant community in a changing environment. To test the hypothesis that nitrogen (N) increase would benefit N competitive species, rather than N stress-tolerant species, to compete with neighbours, we conducted an experiment with neighbour removal, N addition and soil moisture as treatments in an a...

  Background: Some of medicinal plants are a potential source of new drugs to improve the treatment of Chagase disease whose treatment is still a challenge. Here in this screening, the in vitro trypanocidal activity of some fractions for 16 medicinal plants, collected from the northern part of Iran, has been reported.   Methods: Aerial parts of the plants were dried carefully and followed by ex...

AIM The biopotential of the essential oils of the Greek aromatic plants Satureja thymbra and Satureja parnassica were investigated, together with their major components carvacrol, thymol, γ-terpinene and p-cymene. MATERIALS AND METHODS Antioxidant and cancer cell cytotoxic properties were determined using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl and sulforhodamine B assays, respectively. The antiprolife...

Hydrodistilled volatile oils, as well as the extracts from waste water after hydrodistillation from the aerial parts of Satureja montana and Satureja cuneifolia, growing wild at Mt. Biokovo (Croatia), were analyzed by GC-MS. Sixty compounds were identified in four samples. The major constituents of essential oil obtained from the plant material of S. montana were carvacrol (63.4%) and thymol (1...

Stachys, Lamiaceae familyasının en geniş yayılış gösteren cinslerinden birisidir. Bu cinse ait türler biyolojik aktiviteleri ve etnomedikal kullanımları ile bilinmektedir. çalışmada, Stachys macrantha’nın toprak üstü kısımlarının farklı çözücülerle (etanol, metanol etil asetat) elde edilen ekstraktlarının toplam fenolik flavonoid içeriği antioksidan (ABTS, DPPH) enzim inhibisyon (α-amilaz, α-gl...