internally daily for six years with great benefit. He also recorded 18 cases in which under this treatment, he noted improvement of sensation and diminution of tubercles. For in 1890, reported a case in which, between 1884 and 1890, a leper treated with this oil had completely recovered. Rennie and Carter also observed marked improvement after internal administration of chaulmoogra oil (1). In ...

The leaves of Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae) are exploited extensively in West and Central African ethnopharmacy for the treatment of a wide range of conditions, despite this being a non-native species established in the last 50 years. With the objective of seeking bioactive principles, the nonvolatile compounds, an ethanolic (80% v/v) extract was made and fractionated. From the hexane-solubl...

In Latin America. Cedrela odorata is a wide ranging species that occurs in several environments, where it shows significant morphological variation. A common garden experiment was established with seedlings from 63 families of ten populations from two habitat types (mesic and dry), distributed throughout Costa Rica, to examine the relationships between quantitative variation and site of populat...

In the present study the methanol extract of Gynocardia odorata roxb (MEGO) against acetaminophen induced hepatotoxicity and antioxidant activity in Wistar albino rats was analysed. The methanol extract of G.odorata roxb (200, and 400 mg/kg body weight) was administered orally to two groups of rats (six animals per group) in order to evaluate the protective effect of the extract in rats. The ot...

Pollen wall ontogeny of RONDELETIA: odorata was studied with transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) from tetrad stage until maturity. The ontogenetic sequence of wall development in RONDELETIA: follows, to some extent, the basic scheme in the angiosperms, i.e., development starts centripetally with the pro-columellae in a plasmalemma surface coating (prime...

A new dammarane triterpene, 3-acetoxy aglinin C (1), and a new aglain, 10-oxo-aglaxiflorin D (2), along with five known compounds, 3-7, were isolated from the leaves of Aglaia odorata using chromatographic methods. The structures of 1 and 2 were determined on the basis of spectroscopic analyses. Bioactivities of 1-7 against AGZY 83-a (human lung cancer cell line) and SMMC-7721 (human liver canc...

The effect of 3 organic soil amendments viz., cassava peel (Manihot esculenta, Cranz), sawdust (Gmelina arborea, Roxb) and leaves (Cedrela odorata, L) on the stalk rot maize (Zea mays L.) caused by Fusarium verticillioides was investigated. Fourteen treatments made up single or combined with pathogenic non-pathogenic inoculation concentrations 3:1, 2:2 1:3 were added to 15.8 g sterilized soil. ...

Este estudo objetiva realizar uma busca a respeito da prospecção científica e tecnológica semente do cumaru (Dipteryx odorata). Os periódicos utilizados para embasar o foram: SciELO, Science Direct Periódico Capes. Foram abrangidos artigos científicos, de revisão dissertações. Para patentes, recorreu-se à plataforma Instituto Nacional Propriedade Industrial (INPI) ao World Intellectual Property...

Absent in the wild, Tahitian vanilla (V. tahitensis) is a gourmet spice restricted in distribution to cultivated and feral stands in French Polynesia and Papua New Guinea. Its origins have been elusive. Our objective was to test the purported hybrid derivation and parentage of V. tahitensis from aromatic, neotropical progenitors. Nucleotide sequences from V. tahitensis and neotropical Vanilla w...