Objective: Very recent studies have reported positive effects of dietary nitrate on the oxygen consumption during exercise. This research aimed to study the effect of moderate dose of high-nitrate vegetables, watercress (Nasturtium officinale) and red radish (Raphanus sativus) compared with a control group on the incremental treadmill exercise test following a standard Bruce protocol controlled...

Background: Treating infertility doesn’t merely deal with advanced medical procedures. The effects of most of herbal drugs is not clearly established on fertility potential. One of this herbal formula is NOFODA comprising of Orchis mascula, Tribulus terrestris, Amygdalus communis, Ficus carica, Allium ampeloprasum, Nasturtium officinale and pollen of Phoenix dactylifera. In this study, the effe...

For determining interactive plant-bacterial effects between glucosinolates and phyllospheric colonization by a plant growth-promoting strain, Enterobacter radicincitans DSM 16656, in cruciferous vegetables, the extent of bacterial colonization was assessed in 5 cruciferous vegetables (Brassica juncea, Brassica campestris, Brassica oleracea var. capitata, Brassica rapa var. alboglabra, Nasturtiu...

Calcium absorption was measured in ten male volunteers from skimmed milk, Ca-enriched skimmed milk or watercress (Nasturtium officinale) soup. The foods were labelled extrinsically with 30 mg 44Ca. Shortly after consuming the labelled meal, each subject was given an intravenous injection of 3 mg 42Ca. Fractional absorption from the oral dose was determined from plasma and urine samples collecte...

Due to the side effects of antibiotics used in treatment diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria, and antibiotic resistance that develops due misuse antibiotics, scientists have turned search for alternative antimicrobial compounds. Plants compounds plants are widely researched because they natural been a familiar resource field complementary medicine centuries. In this study, activities methano...

Maximum water temperatures in streams throughout the western USA typically occur in late summer and early autumn, coinciding with low stream flow. However, in the spring-fed Big Springs Creek in northern California, where constant-temperature groundwater springs provide relatively stable stream flow throughout the year, peak water temperatures and maximum diurnal variability occur in spring. We...

Helicobacter pylori :28 µg/mL).   (H. pylori) infection leads to different clinical and pathological outcomes in humans, including chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and gastric neoplasia and even gastric cancer and its eradiation dependst upon multi-drug therapy. The most effective therapy is still unknown and prompts people to make great efforts to find better and more modern natural or ...

The effects of different growth regimes on gluconasturtiin concentration in watercress (Nasturtium officinale R. Br.) were investigated. Watercress plantlets at the 5th mature leaf stage (ca. 2 weeks old) were exposed to different day and night temperatures, to long (16 h) or short (8 h) days, to red (R) or far-red (FR) light given during the main long day photoperiod, and finally to R or FR li...

Abstract Cultures of Nasturtium officinale were cultivated in vitro under illumination with different wavelengths light-emitting diode (LED) light (white LED light—WLED, blue light—B, red light—R, 70% and 30% light—RB, 50% green, 35% 15% light—RBG, yellow, light—RBY, far red, light—RBfR, UV, light—RBUV, darkness—D), white fluorescent (WF)—control conditions. The study investigated the influence...

Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus L.) oil contains the highest levels of erucic acid of known seed oils (75-80%). A significant portion of the acid is attached to the 2-position of the glycerol, and trierucin is a major component (ca. 50%) of the oil. Seeds from eleven varieties of commercially available garden nasturtium (T. majus) were screened for oil content, erucic acid levels and fatty acid di...