Cadmium is a known industrial pollutant which accumulates in the kidney and its exposure leads to the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). The present study was carried out to evaluate the protective effects of Peucedanum grande against CdCl2 induced renal toxicity in Wistar rats. Wistar rats were subjected to oral pre-treatment of P. grande (60 and 120 mg/kg b.wt) against the renal tox...

The composition of essential oils of Leutea glaucopruinosa (Rech.f.) Akhani & Salimian comb. nov., and Zeravschania (Boiss. & Hausskn.) Salimian & Akhani comb. nov. were analysed by GC-MS. 49 compounds are identified in the former and 33 compounds in the latter, comprising a total of 76 compounds in both species. Both species were originally described under Peucedanum, which are transferred in ...

Vincent Moron*, Andrew W. Robertson, Jian-Hua Qian and Michael Ghil 1 CEREGE, UM 34 CNRS, Department of Geography, Aix-Marseille University, Aix en Provence, France 2 International Research Institute for Climate and Society, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA 3 Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA , USA 4 ...

I read with interest the article entitled ‘‘Antihyperlipidemic effect of Peucedanum pastinacifolium extract in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats’’ by Ahmad Movahedian et al. (2010). This interesting article highlights the antihypolipidemic effect of P. pastinacifolium (Pp) extract on diabetic rats. A detailed description of the active compound of the plant extract studied may have been benef...