seaweeds have caused an emerging interest in the biomedical area, mainly due to their contents of bioactive substances which show great potential as anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-viral and anti-tumoral drugs. despite the diversity in quality and quantity of the mediterranean tunisian coast flora, with its large contains of marine organisms and seaweeds, most of them have not yet been ...

The present study evaluated the antihyperlipidemic activity of myricetin, myricetrin, the alcohol fraction (AF) and the ethyl acetate fraction (EF) obtained from the bark of Myrica rubra (MR) in high-fat and high-cholesterol (HFHC) induced hyperlipidemic C57BL/6j mice. Mice were treated with myricetin, myricetrin, AF and EF with a dose of 130 mg per kg per day for 35 days. After treatment, seru...

Katphala or Kaiphala, botanically equated with plant Myrica esculenta Buch. - Ham., is an important bark drug of Indian systems of medicine. It is one of the plant species, which are under imminent danger of extinction from U. P. Himalayas. Since, no pharmacognostic study on this drug is on record, the present investigations has been undertaken. In this article, macroscopic and microscopic char...

Brown algae Cystoseira sp. and to gain additional information on the environmental conditions of the area seawater samples were collected from six sampling stations along the Turkish coast of the Aegean Sea. Concentrations of Cd, Pb, Cu, Zn, Mn and Fe were measured for both algae and seawater samples. The heavy metal concentrations detected in algae showed significant differences among all stat...

SCHWINTZER, C. R. 1983. Primary productivity and nitrogen, carbon, and biomass distribution in a dense My)-ica gale stand. Can. J. Bot. 61: 2943-2948. Aboveground vascular vegetation was harvested in twenty 0.25-m' plots at the end of the growing season in a weakly minerotrophic, central Massachusetts peatland. The materials were separated by species and component and the Myrica gale fractions ...

Actinorhizal plants invade nitrogen-poor soils because of their ability to form root nodule symbioses with N(2)-fixing actinomycetes known as Frankia. Frankia strains are difficult to isolate, so the diversity of strains inhabiting nodules in nature is not known. To address this problem, we have used the variability in bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences amplified from root nodules as a means to ...

In this study, the effect of brown seaweed (Cystoseira barbata) and cattle manure combinations were investigated as a worm food on properties Eisenia fetida manure. Seaweed Cystoseira barbata collected from coast Giresun, desalted dried then ground. Cattle was obtained breeding dairy had covered fermented. Food groups; 0% (control group); 5.45%; 10.90%; 21.81% 43.63% algae prepared containing t...

BACKGROUND The Chinese bayberry (Myrica rubra Sieb. and Zucc.) is a subtropical fruit native to China, with unique flavor, sweet and sour taste, and high nutrition and health values. The fruit is highly perishable and susceptible to mechanical injury, physiological deterioration and fungal decay once harvested. This study was to investigate the effect of hypobaric storage on the quality of Chin...

Supercritical carbon dioxide with ethanol as modifier was employed in the extraction of functional food ingredients from Cystoseira abies-marine algae. Three different types of pre-treatment were employed to prepare the vegetal raw material producing an important effect on extraction yield. The experimental assays were carried out in a semi-continuous extraction cell at 290 bar, 40 °C and using...