Adenovirus causes a number of diseases in Human, and to date, no specific antiviral therapy approved against this virus. Thus, searching for effective anti-adenovirus agents seems to be required. Many studies showed that components derived from medicinal plants had effective antiviral activity. Therefore, the present was aimed to evaluate activity of Melissa officinalis L. extract against adeno...

Chrpová D., Kouřimská L., Gordon M.H., Heřmanová V., Roubíčková I., Pánek J. (2010): Antioxidant activity of selected phenols and herbs used in diets for medical conditions. Czech J. Food Sci., 28: 317–325. The antioxidant capacity of some herbs used in dietology practice was determined by the DPPH free radical method, which was calibrated with ascorbic acid. Partially hydrophilic phenolic comp...

This work investigates the process of extraction of lemon balm (Melissa officinalis L.) by treatment with carbon dioxide at supercritical conditions. The process kinetics is studied at different operational conditions, and the influence of some important regime parameters (pressure, temperature particle size, solvent flow-rate) on the extraction yield is experimentally determined. Besides the i...

introduction & aim: the aim of this study was evaluating effect of methanol and ethanol foliar application as a new and safe technology in plant production on lemon balm’s (melissa officinalis l.) volatile oil components. experimental: experimental carried out based on a randomized complete block design (rcbd) with fifteen treatments and three replications in the experimental field of medi...

OBJECTIVE Melissa officinalis (lemon balm) is contemporaneously used as a mild sedative and/or calming agent. Although recent research has demonstrated modulation of mood in keeping with these roles, no studies to date have directly investigated the effects of this herbal medication on laboratory-induced psychological stress. METHODS In this double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, balan...

1 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, TURKEY 2 Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, TURKEY 3 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, TURKEY 4 Faculty of Art and Science, Department of Chemistr...