background & aim: ziziphora l. genus belongs to the lamiaceae family, which has important medicinal and aromatic plant species. in current study, essential oil chemical compositions of two ziziphora l. species (z. tenuior l. and z. clinopodioides lam.) were investigated. experimental: the flowering branches of z. tenuior and z. clinopodioides were collected in spring and summer 2011. the ae...

the present study was carried out to determine the potential antibacterial effect of essential oil of origanumvulgare against antibiotic resistant e.coli. in this study, the essential oil of origanumvulgare obtained by hydrodistillation was analyzed by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (gc-ms) in order to determine their chemical composition. the minimum inhibitory concentrations ...

Some Angelica species are used for medicinal purposes. In particular, the roots of Angelica acutiloba var. acutiloba and A. acutiloba var. sugiyamae, known as “Toki” and “Hokkai Toki”, respectively, are used as important medicinal materials in traditional Japanese medicine. However, since these varieties have recently outcrossed with each other, it is difficult to determine whether the Japanese...

This study aimed to investigate the oxidatively generated damage to DNA and proteins induced by internal irradiation with the radiopharmaceutical administration of Technetium ( Tc) in rat liver and to 99m 99m evaluate the radioprotective effect of Angelica archangelica and Ginkgo biloba flavonoids. Sixty adult male Wistar rats were classified into six equal groups. Group 1 served as normal cont...

abstract in order to evaluate the effects of different organic and biological fertilizers on quantity and quality of essential oil of fennel an experiment was conducted in a completely randomized block design with three replications. the experimental treatments were two organic (compost and vermicompost) and two biological (pseudomonas putida and azotobacter chroococcum ) fertilizers, their all...

since the use of antibiotics in animal feeds has been banned, researches on alternative natural products that modulate ruminal fermentation have been intensified. natural compounds such as plant extracts have been considered to be replaced antibiotics as safe and sustainable alternatives. plant extracts especially essential oils and saponins have strong antimicrobial, antiparasitic, antiprotozo...

this experiment was conducted to determine the effects of dietary myrtle essential oil on small intestinal morphology and microbiology of broiler chickens. two hundred day-old broiler chickens (ross 308) were allocated to 5 treatments, 4 replications with a completely randomized design. the diets were supplemented with: no myrtle essential oil (control), each of myrtle essential oil at levels o...

background & aim: smirnova iranica sabeti is one of the valuable and adapted shrub species native to the sandy fields of central iran and of fabaceae family that in terms of the production of forage and soil conservation and creating a beautiful landscape and medicinal value is critically important. no study has been conducted on this plant essence in iran, so far.  experimental: in the hab...

introduction & aim: plant growth regulators (pgr) have same effect as natural plant's hormones and can change the main components in plant samples. chaerophyllum aureum l. is related to apiaceae family. experimental: in this paper the qualitative and quantitative composition of the volatile oils of ‎chaerophyllum aureum l. were reported after using different concentrations of iaa and naa ‎...

essential oil extracted from the leaves of lemon verbena, lippia citriodora kunth (verbenaceae) was tested for fumigant toxicity in the laboratory against two stored-product insects tribolium confusum jacquelin du val and callosobruchus maculatus (f.). the chemical composition of the isolated oil was examined by gc-ms. the major compounds were citral (11.3%), limonene (10.6%), neral (7.9%), 4-p...