Background & Aim: A. belladonna (family: Solanaceae) is one of important pharmaceutical plants which contain tropane ‎alkaloids. Tropane alkaloids are distinct group of secondary metabolites of the ‎Solanaceae family.  The most important alkaloids of A. belladonna are atropine and hyoscine that are used extensively because of their medicinal properties. There...

The effect of Atropa belladonna L. (AB) aqueous extract on skin wound healing was studied in male Sprague-Dawley rats subjected to two parallel full-thickness skin incisions on the back. Specimens for histological evaluation were collected on days 2 and 5 whereas for biomechanical testing, they were collected on day 5. In the in vitro study, a different concentration of AB extract was used to t...

THE recent observations of Klein & Linser [1932; 1933, 1, 2] on the betaines stachydrine and trigonelline in Stachys palustris and Trigonella Foenum-graecum point to the fact that these substances are intimately connected with protein metabolism. These workers showed that proline and ornithine when injected into the plant caused increases in the concentrations of stachydrine and trigonelline. O...

An efficient protocol for enhancement of total alkaloids production from suspension cultures of A. belladonna L. was established. The effect of MS-medium supplemented with different concentrations of naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) and benzyl adenine (BA) on growth parameters as well as total alkaloid production was investigated. In the same connection, the effect of biotic stress caused by vario...