abstract background: doxorubicin is used in treatment of many solid malignancies and lymphomas with poorly understood mechanism underlying tissue injury. rosemary leaves or extracts were found to contain high antioxidant activity almost equivalent to bha (butylated hydroxy anesole) and bht (butylated hydroxy toluene). thus, the possibility of aqueous rosemary leaves extract (re) to ameliorate d...

Total antioxidant capacity (TAC) of some Rosmarinus officinalis L. (rosemary) extracts was investigated by an “in batch” analytical method based on chemiluminescence (CL). This method is based on a CL reaction between luminol and hydroxyl radicals generated by the hydrogen peroxide in the presence of Co(II) ions complexed with ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) disodium salt, according to...

Fresh ground beef patties with (1) no antioxidant (control), (2) 0.02% butylated hydroxyanisole/butylated hydroxytoluene (BHA/BHT), (3) 3% dried plum puree, or (4) 0.25% rosemary extract were aerobically packaged, irradiated at target doses of 0, 1.5, or 2.0 kGy (1.7 and 2.3 kGy actual doses), and stored at 4°C. The samples were evaluated for lipid oxidation on 0, 3, 7, 14, 21, and 28 days of s...

WILLIAM DRENNAN was born in Belfast in 1754, the last of 9 children, only three of whom survived childhood. His father was the Reverend Thomas Drennan, Minister of the First Presbyterian Congregation, Rosemary Street, Belfast and he was a Dissenter throughout his life. William was educated at the school of Belfast in Church Lane which had been in existence for nearly one hundred years when he w...

A. Govaris, E. Botsoglou, A. Moulas and N. Botsoglou 1 Laboratory of Hygiene of Foods of Animal Origin, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Thessaly, 431 00 Karditsa, Greece 2 Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Animal Production, Technological Education Institute TEI, 411 10 Larissa, Greece 3 Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University, 54...

This study investigated the cytotoxic activity of Rosmarinus officinalis L. (rosemary) aqueous extract on the cell cycle of Allium cepa. To this end, crude aqueous leaf extracts at four concentrations, 0.02, 0.04, 0.06 and 0.08 mg/mL, were tested on A. cepa meristematic root cells, at exposure times of 24 and 48 h. Slides were prepared by the crushing technique, and cells analyzed throughout th...

Polyphenolic compounds present in rosemary were found to have antioxidant properties, anticarcinogenic activity, and to increase the detoxification of pro-carcinogens. The aim of the study was to determine the effect the aqueous extract of rosemary (AER) on mutagenicity induced by methylmethane sulfonate in meristematic cells of Allium cepa, as well as to describe its mode of action. Anti-mutag...