introduction: depression is one of the most frequent psychiatric disorders in the world with occurs with higher incidence in women. in the present study, the effect of water-alcoholic extract of papaver rhoeas l. on forced swimming test (fst) in swiss-webster mice were examined. methods: we used swiss-webster mice (20-25 g) to execute fst on them. the plant extract (1, 10, 30, and 100 mg/kg) wa...

Background: In this study the effect of water-alcohol Papaver bracteatum Lindl. Extract on development of mice oocytes treated with doxorubicin (dox) was examined. Materials and Methods: Mice at 7-8 weeks old were assigned to 4 groups. Control group, mice injected intraperitoneally (IP) with saline. P.bracteatum extract group alone, mice treated with 200 mg/kg of body weight, IP, twelve consecu...

Due to their easy and low-cost production enhanced properties, noble metal nanoparticles are preferred as nano-additives in most pharmaceutical compositions. For example, silver (AgNPs) gold (AuNPs) possess antiseptic antimicrobial activity they generally for obtaining antibacterial clothing coatings. In the present study, we report a simple, low cost green method synthesizing AgNPs using aqueo...

Plants used for treating endoand ectoparasites of rabbits and poultry in British Columbia included Arctium lappa (burdock), Artemisia sp. (wormwood), Chenopodium album (lambsquarters) and C. ambrosioides (epazote), Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle), Juniperus spp. (juniper), Mentha piperita (peppermint), Nicotiana sp. (tobacco), Papaver somniferum (opium poppy), Rubus spp. (blackberry and raspbe...

Four native Papaver species of Iran, i. e. P. glaucum, P. tenuifolium, P. dubium and P. fugax, were collected from their natural habitat and subjected to HPLC analysis for determination of their morphine, codeine and thebaine content. P. dubium and R. glaucum contained all of the three mentioned narcotic alkaloids, while morphine was not found in P. fugax, and P. tenuifolium was free from codeine.

Medicinal use of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L) has ancient history, but the isolation of morphine was not described until the early nineteenth century. Morphine is the most important alkaloid of opium poppy in the last 50 years. In the morphine pathway has been reported to generate morphine in this species, CODM has a crucial role as the gene coding the enzyme respons...