Background: Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that occurs in subtropical and tropical regions with approximately 350 million people worldwide 2 new cases annually. The annual increase cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) observed, especially endemic areas such as Iran. Since there no effective vaccine, the detection of natural anti-leishmanial products essential. Objective: purpose this study was to...

Artemisinin extracted from Artemisia annua L. is the best medicine with the highest efficiency, the most effective and the lowest toxicity in treating ague nowadays. At present, most studies focus on artemisinin and its derivatives, while the study and report about the other active components are rare. This paper purposed to further discover new indication of Artemisia annua L. connecting with ...

Host shifts by herbivorous insects have contributed substantially to current patterns of association between insects and plants. Despite their evolutionary and agricultural interest, however, the plant traits that predispose insects to colonize some plants instead of others are poorly understood. To examine whether ancestral and novel hosts share similar chemical oviposition stimulants that wou...

Increase in prevalence of cancer cases has been associated with the expansion of industrial, chemical and radioactive pollutants, also the gap between human being and nature (Colditz and Wei, 2012; Fasinu and Orisakwe, 2013). Despite the progress in the field of medicinal chemistry and development in the synthesis of several new therapeutic compounds, the role of plants and phytochemicals can n...