The essential oil compound, fatty acid composition and the in vitro antioxidant activity of the root and aerial of Glycyrrhiza echinata L., a medicinal plant growing in Turkey, have been studied. The antioxidant capacity tests were designed to evaluate the antioxidant activities of methanol extracts. Total phenolic and flavonoid concentrations of each extract were also determined by using both ...

Plants with simple architecture and strong constraints on their growth may offer critical insights into how growth strategies affect the tolerance of plants to herbivory. Although Dioscorea praehensilis, a wild yam of African forests, is perennial, both aerial apparatus and tuber are annually renewed. Each year, the tuber produces a single stem that climbs from the ground to the forest canopy. ...

abstract   extract prepared from aerial part of pycnocycla spinosa is a relaxant of rat ileum contractions. the objective of this research was to study the spasmolytic activity of p. spinosa root extract for comparison with the aerial part extract. hydroalcoholic extracts were prepared by percolation method. a portion of rat ileum was removed and suspended under 1 g tension in tyrode’s solution...

Anti-inflammatory effects of acetonic and methanolic extracts of aerial parts of Stachys byzanthina were investigated in this study. For assessment of anti-inflammatory properties, two well-characterized inflammatory models, formalin test and carrageenan-induced paw edema were used. In the former, the recording of the early phase started immediately after formalin injection and lasted for 10 mi...

Enicostemma littorale Blume is a medicinal plant commonly called as whitehead. Traditionally, the plant is used in the treatment of large number of human ailments such as in hypoglycemic, lowering the blood glucose level, as a potent anti-diabetic and antioxidant activity. Currently, the scientific research is going on to prove its medicinal value. Hence, to evaluate the phytoconstituents and t...

Arial parts of Primula genus (Primulaceae) are well known to treat various ailments in Iranian Traditional Medicine. Our preliminary studies showed that the medium polar to polar extracts of Primula auriculata had a significant cytotoxic activity and Induction of apoptosis effects on some cancerous cell lines. The current study focused on phytochemical investigation and characterization the com...

Acanthus ilicifolius L. (Acanthaceae) is a spiny herb of mangrove widely distributed in southeastern Asia. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is used as an anti-inflammatory and anti-hepatitis agent. Previous pharmaceutical studies on this plant revealed that the crude alcoholic extract of its leaves showed antioxidant, hepatoprotective, antitumour and anticarcinogenic effects [1 – 2]. The con...

A method based on the measurement of ATP/ADP ratios is described. It permits the determination of the critical respiratory oxygen pressure of any organ, or part of any organ, of an intact plant. The data obtained by this method with intact maize (Zea mays L. INRA 508) root tips are compared with polarographic determinations on similar excised tissues.When internal O(2) transport from the aerial...

BACKGROUND Recent investigations have shown that the antioxidant properties of plants could be correlated with oxidative stress defense and different human diseases. In this respect flavonoids and other polyphenolic compounds have gained the greatest attention. The plant Cytisus scoparius contains the main constituent of flavone and flavonals. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the in...

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease. Traditional medicines are currently still popular as an alternative in the treatment of this However, mechanism action lowering blood sugar most folk recipes remains unproven. The objective study to evaluate antidiabetic potential Algerian halophyte regulating postprandial hyperglycemia via α-amylase inhibitory activity. For this, methanolic and...