Objective: Microorganisms are responsible for many problems in industry and medicine because of biofilm formation. Therefore, this study was aimed to examine the effect of Thymus vulgaris (T. vulgaris) extracts on the planktonic form and biofilm structures of six pathogenic bacteria. Materials and methods: Antimicrobial activities of the plant extracts against the planktonic form of the bacteri...

The objective of present investigation was to determine antimicrobial activity of Thymus vulgaris oil on some oral pathogens. Thymus vulgaris oil was prepared by hydrodistillation and tested against 30 clinical isolates of each of Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus mutans, Candida albicans, Porphyromonas gingivalis, and Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, prepared from related oral infect...

The global pollution of environment urges the screening effective natural protectors for correc-tion toxic and genotoxic action xenobiotics. Medicinal herbs contain a complex biologically ac-tive compounds that are potential sources such protective agent. In current study mutagenic antimutagenic activity alcoholic extracts peppermint (Mentha piperita L.) thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.), family Lamia...

In the present study, Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) were synthesized from Salvia officinalis and Thymus vulgaris, known as phytotherapy plants. The obtained silver characterized using SEM, XRD, FTIR, UV/Vis spectra. antioxidant capacities of officinalis-mediated AgNP (SO-AgNP) vulgaris-mediated (TV-AgNP) analyzed in vitro 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl iron chelating activity assays. DPPH activities ...

Thymus vulgaris L. commonly known as thyme or garden belonging to family Lamiaceae is a pleasant smelling flowering perennial shrub, cultivating all over the world. Thyme has great importance due possibility of its use in various applications, food additives, medicines and cosmetic industry. leaves are highly aromatic therefore used fresh dried seasoning variety culinary applications including ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease transmitted by sand flies. Many investigations are performed to find an effective and safe treatment for leishmaniasis. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of herbal extracts of Thymus vulgaris (Thyme) and Achillea millefolium (Yarrow), propolis hydroalcoholic extract and systemic glucantime against cutaneous leishmaniasis in Bal...

the cytotoxic activity of ethanolic extracts of thymus vulgaris, thuja orientalis and achillea millefolium was investigated on various growing tumor cell lines. mtt colorimetric assay was used for measuring the inhibition of cell proliferation. all of the three extracts showed a relatively dose-dependent inhibition of proliferation of human breast cancer (sk-br-3, mda-mb-435) and leukemia (u937...

OBJECTIVE The genus Thymus L. is a cushion plant that was previously used for the treatment of bronchitis and rheumatism. The present investigation was carried out to study the effects of root, shoot, leaf and seed extracts of five Thymus species and subspecies on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) toxicity and HIV-1 replication. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this experimental study, the a...