Background: The use of medicinal plants is an option for livestock farmers who are not allowed to use allopathic drugs under certified organic programs or cannot afford to use allopathic drugs for minor health problems of livestock. Methods: In 2003 we conducted semi-structured interviews with 60 participants obtained using a purposive sample. Medicinal plants are used to treat a range of condi...

BACKGROUND The use of medicinal plants is an option for livestock farmers who are not allowed to use allopathic drugs under certified organic programs or cannot afford to use allopathic drugs for minor health problems of livestock. METHODS In 2003 we conducted semi-structured interviews with 60 participants obtained using a purposive sample. Medicinal plants are used to treat a range of condi...

seedless barberry (berberis vulgaris l. var. asperma) is one of the few crops that is only cultivated in eastern parts of iran. as a new crop there has not been any study to identify phylogenetic relationships of this plant with other related species existing in iran. in this study, amplification fragment length polymorphism (aflp) markers based on four selected primer combinations (ecori/tru1i...

background: cystic echinococcosis (ce), a zoonotic parasitic infection caused by the metacestode (larvae) stage of dog tapeworm echinococcus granulosus and recognized as a major economic and public health concern in the world. this study aimed to investigate the in vitro scolicidal effect of methanolic extract of berberis vulgaris l. roots and its main compound, berberine against protoscoleces ...

To evaluate the action mode of Berberis vulgaris root extract in the alleviation of oxidative stress, female Japanese quails (n 180, aged 5 weeks) were reared, either at 22°C for 24 h/d (thermoneutral, TN) or 34°C for 8 h/d (heat stress, HS), and fed one of three diets: diets containing 0, 100 or 200 mg of B. vulgaris root extract per kg for 12 weeks. Exposure to HS depressed feed intake by 8·5...

Two new N-methyltransferases (NMT-I and NM T-II) were found to occur in Berberis vulgaris cell suspension cultures. One of these enzymes (NM T-I) was partially purified (100-fold) and characterized. This enzyme is specific for tetrahydrobenzylisoquinoline alkaloids and S-adenosylL-methionine serves as the methyl donor. The apparent molecular weight of the enzyme is 68,000. The pH optimum of the...