background: considering their specific adaption to marine milieus, marine actinomycetes constitute an excellent source for producing unique bioactive substances. they are also important sources of antibiotics and extracellular enzymes, geosmin, and enzymes with potent antibacterial and anticarcinogenic properties and low toxicity. the objective of this study is to isolate actinomycetes producin...

background and objective: free radicals cause many diseases in human and their neutralizing by antioxidants reduces risk of cancers. salvia officinalis from lamiaceae family is one of the valuable plants in traditional medicine. the present study aimed to evaluate the antioxidative and cytotoxic properties of ethanolic extract of the aerial parts of this plant on human prostate and cervical can...

conclusions as l. crispatus and l. jensenni were significantly higher in bv infected women and the cytotoxic effect of l. crispatus on tumoral cervical cells was high, introduction of new probiotics seems necessary. results l. crispatus, l. gasseri, l. iners, l. jensenii, l. acidophilus and l. rhamnosus were the most frequently occurring species in vagina of healthy iranian women. l. crispatus ...

A Thai plant Clitoria macrophylla Wall. was claimed to possess some pharmacological activities. The phytochemical studies reported a rotenoid compound, 6-deoxyclitoriacetal, which exhibits the cytotoxic effect in several cell line experiments. This report was to study the effect of 6-deoxyclitoriacetal on rat liver mitochondria, which may associated to its cytotoxic phenomena. Mitochondrial sus...

A Thai plant Clitoria macrophylla Wall. was claimed to possess some pharmacological activities. The phytochemical studies reported a rotenoid compound, 6-deoxyclitoriacetal, which exhibits the cytotoxic effect in several cell line experiments. This report was to study the effect of 6-deoxyclitoriacetal on rat liver mitochondria, which may associated to its cytotoxic phenomena. Mitochondrial sus...

the present study investigates the antioxidant, anticancer, anticholinesterase, anti-genotoxic activities and phenolic contents of flower, fruit and seed methanol extracts of hypericum retusum aucher. the amounts of protocatechuic acid, catechin, caffeic acid and syringic acid in methanol extracts were determined by hplc. total phenolic content of h. retusum seed extract was found more than fru...

caffeic acid phenethyl ester(cape) suppresses the growth of transformed cells such as human breast cancer cells, hepatocarcinoma , myeloid leukemia, colorectal cancer cells, fibrosarcoma, glioma and melanoma. a group of heterocyclic esters of caffeic acid was synthesized using mitsunobu reaction and the esters were subjected to further structural modification by electrooxidation of the catechol...