Background: Antioxidants are developed to assist the immune system and overcome oxidative stress, the aggression of cellular constituents due to imbalance between reactive oxygen species and the inner antioxidant system. The main objective of this study was to search for new and potent antioxidants to protect humans against diseases associated with oxidative stress. Methods: In this study, thr...

INTRODUCTION Amnesia or loss of memory is the cardinal hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder associated with ageing process. Although, AD had been discovered over a century ago, drugs which could cure or halt the progression of the disease are yet to see the light of the day. However, there has been a growing interest in the use of phytomedicines with mu...

Moringa oleifera Lam. (Moringaceae) is highly valued plant reported to have various biological activities. Considering the antioxidant properties of Moringa oleifera (MO), the chemopreventive property of hydro-ethanolic extract of drumsticks was evaluated on DMBA induced renal carcinogenicity. Groups of 10 male mice were preadministered with MO (200 and 400mg/kg body weight) and standard (0.5%B...

Background and objectives: Plants of genus Clinopodium have been used in different cultures as traditional medicines.Due to theimportance of medicinal properties of the genus Clinopodium, C. umbrosum was selected for phytochemical analysis along with evaluation of its antioxidant property. Methods: The aerial parts of C. umbrosum<...

Di-ethanolamine (DEA) is a well-known environmental pollutant used in manufacturing soap, detergent, body lotion, and other sanitary products. DEA has been reported to cause cytotoxicity in different tissue and cell, but no study was found to explain the toxic effect of DEA on rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) differentiation. Thus in the present study, the differentiation property...

Human have been constantly using plants and plant products to overcome many diseases. The antioxidant property of the plant sources is studied to obtain an efficacious drug against cancer. The objectives of the present study is to evaluate the antioxidant and cytotoxic activity of the Tecoma stans extracts against lung cancer cell line in comparison with vincristine drug. The antioxidant activi...

Free radicals are implicated for many diseases including diabetes mellitus, arthritis, cancer, ageing etc. In the treatment of these diseases, antioxidant therapy has gained a great importance. Different extract (Hot water, Hydro alcoholic, Chloroform and Petroleum Ether) of Ganoderma lucidum was studied for its in vitro antioxidant activity using different models viz. DPPH radical scavenging, ...

The aim of this study was to produce the ice cream with potential antidiabetic effects by addition of pistachio peel extract (PPE) (0, 10, 20 and 30% on dry matter basis). The properties of produced ice creams such as physicochemical, rheological, antioxidant, antidiabetic and sensory properties were evaluated. The results indicated that ice creams containing 20 and 30% of PPE provided desired ...

background and objectives: salvia chloroleuca rech. f. &amp; allen., is an endemic species growing wildly in north east and center parts of iran but there is no information about its safety. to provide information about the safety of the species, we evaluated its acute and sub chronic toxicity in rats. methods: in acute toxicity study, the aqueous methanol (80%) extract at a single dose of 2000...