Salvia Species as Sources of Natural Products with Antiprotozoal Activity

Salvia Species as Sources of Natural Products with Antiprotozoal Activity

Natural products from plants have been used since ancestral times to treat a wide variety of diseases worldwide. Plants of the genus Salvia (Sage) have been reported to be used for the prevention and treatment of various diseases and ailments. In particular, some Salvia species have been used in traditional medicine to treat diseases caused by protozoan parasites of the genera Trypanosoma, Leis...

Natural Products as Sources of Antitumor Agents

Salvia species as potential essential oil sources in Hungary

In the course of the evaluation of the species belonging to the Section Salvia of the genus Salvia (Family Lamiaceae) the essential oil content and the composition of the species have been investigated with special respect to their neurotoxic α-, and β-thujone content. It could be established that from among the species S. lavandulifolia Vahl., S. candelabru Boiss., S. tomentosa Mill., (S. gran...

Natural products as sources for new pesticides.

Natural products as pesticides have been reviewed from several perspectives in the past, but no prior treatment has examined the impact of natural product and natural product-based pesticides on the U.S. market, as a function of new active ingredient registrations with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Thus, EPA registration details of new active ingredients for all conventional pestic...

Natural products: sources and databases.

Melanie Füllbeck was born in Sprockhövel, Germany. She obtained her diploma in Biology from the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen in 2003. At the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin she received her Master of Computer Sciences in Bioinformatics in 2004. She joined the Institute of Biochemistry, Charité-University Medicine Berlin in 2003 where she is currently preparing her PhD thesis, wh...