The evaluation of foodstuffs provides the animal nutritionists with necessary information to adjust the diet from a physiological and economic point of view, so that the animal performance be desirable. Nowadays, there are various methods for evaluating ruminant feed intake. One of the most important methods is in situ nylon bag technique. Prosopis farcta is one of plants which is used as forag...

Background: Teucrium Polium and Prosopis Farcta have been traditionally employed in cancer treatment. In this study we evaluated the effects of methanolic extracts of these two plants in HT-29 cells. Methods: IC50s of extracts were obtained via MTT assay and the levels of ROS production, cell death, collapse of mitochondrial membrane potential and Sirt3 enzyme activity were determined. Results:...

BACKGROUND Hepatotoxicity by acetaminophen is the most frequent cause of acute liver failure in many countries. Prosopis farcta beans extract (PFE) has some antioxidant property and may alleviate hepatotoxicity. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate effects of PFE against acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity. METHODS Thirty-six male Wistar albino rats weighing 220 ± 30 g were distr...

background: diabetes is a chronic disease that despite of medical and specific treatments has reminded as an important medical problem. various herbal were presented for treatment of diabetes. one of these plants is prosopis farcta that was used as hypoglycemic agent in traditional medicine. the aim of this study was investigation of hypoglycemic effect of prosopis farcta root in diabetes and h...

Novel sources of urease from leguminosae were selected for activity test, one the them (Prosopis farcta) showed high specific activity (36.52 U mg). The active uerase extract then subjected to series of purification steps involved salting out, DEAE, CM ion exchange and size exclusion chromatography. Specific activity were 52.44, 193.27, 230.55, 433.33 U mg respectively. Main features of urease ...

Background: Previous studies have shown the beneficial effects of Prosopis species in the treatment of diabetes in traditional medicine. This study was performed to evaluate the antihyperglycemic effects of Prosopis farcta (P.farcta) in streptozocin- induced diabetic rats. Methods: Diabetes was induced by intraperitoneal injection of streptozocin (55mg/kg...

Background and Objective: Dermatophytosis is a superficial fungal disease. Prosopis farcta has attracted attention for ethnobotany and medical purposes. The present study aimed to investigate the antifungal properties of Prosopis farcta extracts against Trichophyton mentagrophytes (PTCC 5054) and five archived terbinafine resistant clinical isolates of T. mentagrophyte, based on an ethnobotanic...