Moroccan cancer patients use traditional herbal medicine and no ethno botanical study has targeted them in the Béni Mellal Khénifra region. We had objective to measure frequency of medicinal plants by region as well communication around this inventory used added their adverse effects. an survey was conducted among 314 at regional oncology center Mellal. The prevalence relative citation (RFC), p...

Several factors contribute in wound generation, e.g., accidental traumas or surgery, and in certain cases, this dermal injury may have a devastating outcome. When skin damage occurs, the human body puts in place a sophisticated choreography, which involves numerous repairing processes to restore physiological conditions. Nevertheless, natural healing mechanisms are ineffective towards chronic o...

The essential oil obtained from the aerial parts of Marrubium deserti de Noé. (Lamiaceae), growing in the North fringe of the Algerian Sahara, was analyzed by GC-MS. Thirty-eight compounds were identified, representing 99.70% of the total oils. The GC-MS analysis revealed the presence of tetracosane, germacrene D, Δ-cadinene, α-cadinol and t-cadinol as the main constituents, representing 31.11%...

Hypochlorite is a strong oxidant able to induce deleterious effects in biological systems. The goal of this work was to investigate the use of PGR and PYR as probes in assays aimed at evaluating antioxidant activities towards hypochorite and apply it to plant extracts employed in Chilean folk medicine. The consumption of PGR and PYR was evaluated from the decrease in the visible absorbance and ...

AIM Developing antitumor drugs from natural products is receiving increasing interest worldwide due to limitations and side effects of therapy strategies for the second leading cause of disease related mortality, cancer. METHODS The antiproliferative activity of a methanolic extract from the aerial parts of Marrubium persicum extract was assessed with the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line using t...