Cardiovascular diseases are increasingly becoming one of the leading diseases causing morbidity and mortality in Uganda. Ethnographic evidence suggests that these diseases are often first managed by indigenous and related herbs before patients are referred for allopathic forms of management. One such herb of interest is Nerium oleander. Therefore the crude ethanolic extracts of the dried leaves...

during an investigation on cladosporium species associated with numerous substrates of various localities in iran during 2011-13, eight species including c. delicatulum, c. echinulatum, c. exile, c. macrocarpum, c. neriicola, c. pannosum, c. scabrellum and c. uredinicola were identified based on the morphological characters. all these species are new records for the iranian mycobiota, except fo...

Plants are the most common bioindicatorsused in air quality biomonitoring studies because they are immobile and they have more sensitive to the most prevalent air pollutants than humans and animals. To identify the concentrations and sources of heavy metals in ornamental plants of Isfahan landscape, samples of leaves and soil around Pinuseldarica and Nerium oleander were collected at different ...

This study aimed to find changes in white blood cell profile and liver functions in rats after sterile muscle abscess with Nerium oleander leaves decoction and to find out correlation among serum proteins resolved through SDS PAGE. 10ml/ kg of the leaves extract injected intramuscularly in Wistar rats (225g, n=4). Control animals were injected with saline injection. All the animals were anesthe...

OBJECTIVE Nerium oleander (Apocynaceae) and Aloe vera (Liliaceae) are among the widely used herbal remedies for treating skin diseases and possess numerous activities such as antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and antioxidant. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible wound healing effect of Aloev era-based extract of the N. oleander leaf (NAE-8®) based on its antioxidant, anti-i...

The present study investigates the efficacy of AnvirzelTM, an extract of Nerium oleander, in more than 35 different human cancer cell lines, including all the types of tumours. Assays that have been used in order to measure the efficacy of AnvirzelTM in 24, 48 and 72h of incubation in 37 different cancer cell lines, were viability assays [Methyl-Tetrazolium dye (MTT), Crystal violet staining (C...