Insulin resistance is a condition in which insulin signaling and action are impaired in insulin sensitive tissues and results in hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Our previous studies have shown that rosa damascena has antihyperglycemic effects on diabetic and normal rats. Therefore, we conducted a study to evaluate the effect of this medicinal plant on insulin sensiti...

Damask rose (Rosa damascena Mill.) is one of the most high-value essential oil-bearing plants in the world. However, the flower yield and quality of essential oil of R. damascena are largely influenced by the pruning practices and balanced supply of plant nutrition. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis whether the pruning system and foliar fertilization of MgSO4 would influenc...

this research was done to test the effect of rosa damascena essential oil on withdrawal signsof naloxone-precipitated morphine in male mice. morphine dependence was induced by injection(ip) three times daily at doses of 50, 50 and 75 mg/kg, respectively, for 3 days. on day 4,after the last administration of morphine, rosa damascena essential oil was administered atdifferent concentrations (5, 2...

background: rosa damascena is a traditional medicinal plant used in asia to treat several ailments. this study reports in vitro and in vivo antioxidative properties and toxicity of methanolic and aqueous extracts of white rose, an indigenous variety of rosa damascena from iran. methods: the antimicrobial activities, total phenolics, antioxidative properties and the blood sera ferric-reducing an...

in order to investigate the morphological reactions of cutting of damask rose to iba (indole butyric acid) in different times, an experiment was done in a factorial experiment based on rcd and three times with three replications and 10 observations per each replication. in this experiment, the simple effects of iba, time and their interaction effects were measured against morphological properti...

After the beginning of metal processing at the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age, further knowledge of ore mining and smelting had spread from the Near East to central Europe. In the copper ore deposits of Schwaz, in the central part of the Alps, the oldest traces of copper mining derive from the early to middle Bronze Ages. Investigation of a middle to late Bronze Age (1410–920 c...

Flower of Rosa damascena Mill is widely used in Iran for gastrointestinal (GI) disorders. However, its pharmacological action on ileum contraction has not been studied. In this research we have investigated ileum motility effect of essential oil of flower petals of R. damascena growing in Kashan, Iran, and two of its constituents. The essential oils obtained by hydrodistillation were investigat...