Introduction Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been shown to play a critical role in many diseases such as diabetes mellitus, cancer, Alzheimer, arteriosclerosis and other conditions. Chronic glucose levels in blood or cells of diabetic patients are known to cause oxidative damages, followed by an increasing in ROS production and/or dysfunction of antioxidant defense system (enzyme or non-enzy...

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the genus teucrium (germander) belongs to the family lamiaceae, within the subfamily ajugoideae .teucrium polium l. (labiatae) has long been recognized in folk medicine in the treatment of many pathophysiological implications, such as gastrointestinal disorders, inflammations, diabetes and rheumatism. in this study antimicrobial activity of two crude extracts obtained from teucrium polium l. wa...

| May 2014 | 478 plants have been shown to produce oxidative stress and toxicity.[15-17] This toxicity inclines to be more common among certain patients and in specifi c clinical conditions. Thus, knowledge about successful prevention or amelioration of a medicinal drug requires information about pathogenic mechanisms of kidney damage and related risk factors.[1,8,18,19] In this regard, to be e...

objective: in traditional medicaments, teucrium polium is used as anti-fungal, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antidiabetic. modern researches have shown that use of t. polium in vitro leads to decrease in fatty acids. to confirm the anti-diabetic evidences of teucrium polium this survey was done to evaluate the effect of boiled aqueous extract of t. polium on serum lipids, body weight and...

objective(s) wound healing represents a dynamic physiological process influenced by many factors. the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of teucrium polium honey on the wound healing and tensile strength in rat. materials and methods thirty-six sprague-dawley rats were randomly divided into four equal (n= 9) treatment and control groups. two full-thickness wounds were made ove...