otostegia persica (burm.) boiss. is used for the treatment of various diseases in traditional medicine. the aim of this study was to assess the effects of hydroalcoholic extract of the aerial parts of o. persica in dexamethasone (dex) induced hypertension in male wistar rats. for induction of hypertension, dex at 30 µg/kg/day was administered subcutaneously for 14 days. in a prevention study, a...

Otostegia persica (Burm.) Boiss. is the medicinal plant of Lamiaceae family that has long been used traditionally in treatment of severe diarrhea, common cold, flatulence, headache, sore, fever, skin allergies, and blood fat and sugar. This research was conducted in 2013 for one year to identify some ecological characteristics and potential allelopathicof O. persica in Hormozgan province. The c...

   Malaria is one of the worldwide parasitic diseases which threaten the life of hundreds of millions of people at the malarious areas each year. The emergence of chloroquine-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum in most of the malarious areas has encountered the relevant countries with some difficulties about treating the acute cases of the disease particulary if the monotherapy regimen h...

   Malaria is one of the worldwide parasitic diseases which threaten the life of hundreds of millions of people at the malarious areas each year. The emergence of chloroquine-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum in most of the malarious areas has encountered the relevant countries with some difficulties about treating the acute cases of the disease particulary if the monotherapy regimen h...

the antimicrobial activity of methanolic extracts from different parts of 11 indigenous wild plantspecies used in traditional medicines of iran were tested against nine species of microorganisms: escherichiacoli, staphylococcus aureus, staphylococcus epidermis, pseudomonas aeruginosa, klebsiella pneumoniae,salmonella typhi, bacillus subtilis, aspergillus niger and candida albicans. the antimicr...

Effect of Otostegia persica on naloxone-induced morphine withdrawal syndrome was studied in male mice. Dependence was induced using daily subcutaneous injections of morphine for three days. Morphine was injected to mice at doses of 30 and 45mg/kg on day 1 and 60 and 90mg/kg on day 2 (8:00 am and 6:00 pm). On day 3, morphine (90mg/kg) was injected 1h before oral administration and 1.5h before in...

The antioxidant activity of the different extracts and fractions of aerial parts of Otostegia persica (Burm.) Boiss. were evaluated using beta-carotene bleaching and lipid peroxidation methods. The inhibitory activity of the plant extracts on the peroxidation of linoleic acid were measured by ferric thiocyanate method in comparison to methanolic extracts of Green tee, Ginkgo biloba, Vit.E and ...

The antioxidant activity of the different extracts and fractions of aerial parts of Otostegia persica (Burm.) Boiss. were evaluated using beta-carotene bleaching and lipid peroxidation methods. The inhibitory activity of the plant extracts on the peroxidation of linoleic acid were measured by ferric thiocyanate method in comparison to methanolic extracts of Green tee, Ginkgo biloba, Vit.E and ...