The objective of the study carried out at Botanical Garden Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia) was to assess seasonal changes in photosynthetic pigments contents leaves maples Acer campestre L., A. negundo and saccharinum L. Leaves samples were collected from selected maple trees once a week. chlorophylls carotenoids determined spectrophotometrically expressed per leaf area (mg/...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Currently, herbal preparations are clinically used as functional food, food supplements or as add on therapy, which affects the bioavailability and also the net therapeutic potential of co-administered allopathic drugs. Therefore, it is important to assess the interaction among these two classes of drugs. Here we studied the interaction between orally-administered ethano...

Eryngium pyramidale Boiss. & Hausskn. is one of the species Apiaceae family, which used as a spice in Iranian food. In this work, we aim to assess phytochemical profile and antibacterial activity aerial parts . The essential oil was obtained by hydrodistillation using Clevenger apparatus. Then, it quantitatively qualitatively analyzed GC-FID GC-MS, respectively. evaluated against six gram-posit...

The composition of essential oils of Leutea glaucopruinosa (Rech.f.) Akhani & Salimian comb. nov., and Zeravschania (Boiss. & Hausskn.) Salimian & Akhani comb. nov. were analysed by GC-MS. 49 compounds are identified in the former and 33 compounds in the latter, comprising a total of 76 compounds in both species. Both species were originally described under Peucedanum, which are transferred in ...

Vitex negundo Linn. is credited with innumerable medicinal activities like analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anticonvulsant, antioxidant, bronchial relaxant, hepatoprotective, etc. The ethanolic extract of leaves has been found safe as LD 50 dose (by oral route) of it was recorded in non-toxic dose range. Larger trials are required to prove its all activities before it is recommended in future for ...

Catharanthus roseus (L.).G. Don, a highly valued medicinal plant suffers from a serious disease. A survey on the symptom and severity of the leaf blight of C. roseus was performed in the nurseries of the Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences (IFESCU), Bangladesh Council of Industrial Research (BCSIR) and Bangladesh Forest Research Institute (BFRI), Bangladesh. An observation was also...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Leaves of Vitex negundo (VN) have been investigated for their antiinflammatory activity in past, including its mechanism of action. However, nobody has evaluated its potential role as an adjuvant with standard anti-inflammatory therapy. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to investigate interaction of ethanolic leaf extract of VN Linn with standard anti-inflammat...