E stablished professions all acknowledge a domain of ethical judgement beyond, but arising from, the power created by their practitioner' arts. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, architects defer to this obvious fact through specific professional codes. If these codes seem often to be honoured only at a rhetorical or casuistic level, this nevertheless lingers as the residual homage of vice to virtu...

(1) University of Lyon, F-69007 Lyon, France; CNRS, GATE Lyon-St Etienne, UMR 5824, 69130, Ecully, France; (2) Direction of Clinical Research and Innovation, DRCI, Léon Bérard Cancer Centre, Lyon, France; (3) Department of Health Economy, Institute Curie, 26 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France; (4) Gustave Roussy, 114 Rue Edouard Vaillant, 94800 Villejuif, France; (5) Assistance Publique –Hôpitaux d...

Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) is considered a non-toxic, biodegradable and biocompatible polymer. CMC-based films are rated as flexible, clear, odorless, moderately tear resistant, resistant to oil grease migration, water soluble. Due its hydrophilicity, CMC can serve matrix encapsulate hydrophobic substances, like essential oils, by emulsion dispersions. The of rue (Ruta graveolens) has antifu...

Indiscriminate and excessive uses of antibiotics may be lead promote the emergence of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms and side effects in patients. Therefore the researchers recently have focused on the use of natural resources, especially medicinal plants. Ruta graveolens is a kind of medical plants which contains antifungal and antibacterial components and use in traditional medicine in I...

rue, ruta graveolens, is a medicinal plant in traditional medicine that has several therapeutic properties such as anti-carcinogenic agent, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, hypotensive, and spasmolytic. this study was carried out to evaluate the antibacterial effects of the etanolic extract of rue against piscine pathogenic bacteria viz. lactococcus garvieae and aeromonas hydrophi...

BACKGROUND Throughout history women have tried to control or enhance their fertility using herbal remedies, with various levels of societal support. Caribbean folk medicine has been influenced by European folk medicine, either through the early Spanish and French settlers or through the continuous immigration of Spanish-speaking peoples from Venezuela. Some folk uses are ancient and were docume...

The first syntheses of two quinoline alkaloids found in the medicinal herb Ruta chalepensis are reported via the conjugate addition of an o-iodoaniline to an acetylenic sulfone, followed by Pd-catalyzed carbonylation, intramolecular acylation of the corresponding sulfone-stabilized carbanion, and reductive desulfonylation.