Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis L.) is a plant of the family Lamiaceae. The present study aimed to determine chemical composition lemon essential oil grown in Northeastern Bulgaria, perform comparative analysis its antimicrobial activity with that citral, and surface tension properties. main compounds (concentration above 3%) were: ß-caryophyllene (20.45%), geranial (19.74%), neral (15.81%), ge...

Medicinal plants contain numerous bioactive molecules that synergistically provide therapeutic benefits. We have devoted our attention to various EOs without toxicity normal cells, studying their activities against human cancer cells. In particular, we studied the cytotoxicity of Vepris macrophylla (Baker) I. Verd. EO. V. is an evergreen tree Madagascar where much appreciated as a source tradit...

Zingiber officinale Roscoe is an herbal plant native to Asia that can be found in all tropical countries. It used folk medicine, food, and cosmetics. A chemical characterization some agronomic experiments have been carried out on Z. essential oil, showing promising findings for the biological control of fungal pathogens belonging genus Fusarium. The aim this review collect update literature cov...

O estudo sobre adubação e a sazonalidade faz-se necessário, pois podem influenciar na produção de biomassa qualidade quantidade dos óleos voláteis produzidos por plantas medicinais. A pesquisa teve como objetivo identificar o manejo agrícola época no ano apropriados para colheita com melhor Melissa officinalis submetida ao delineamento experimental inteiramente casualizado (DIC), sendo adubaçõe...

Background: In the recent decade, artificial drying has been one of the most important needs of the pharmaceutical industries. In addition, different drying methods have different effects on the quantity and quality of the essential oils produced from medicinal plants. Objective: The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of different drying methods (shade and oven drying a...

The hypothesis that L-DOPA therapy in Parkinson's disease may augment neuronal damage and thus accelerate the progression of the disease remains controversial. In this study, we demonstrate that L-DOPA induces death of catecholaminergic cells in vitro via an active program of apoptosis. Treatment of PC12 cells with clinically applicable concentrations of L-DOPA (25-100 ,uM) induced cell death v...

Objectives: To determine 1) the cost of hospitalization, the 1-week postdischarge cost, the total cost, and the economic burden of community-acquired pneumonia among patients aged 19 years or older in the Philippines and 2) the difference between the estimated costs and the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) pneumonia case rate payments. Methods: The study involved two tertiar...

Alfalfa is the most extensively cultivated forage legume, yet most alfalfa cultivars are not aluminum tolerant, and the molecular mechanisms underlying alfalfa responses to Al stress are largely unknown. In this study, we aimed to understand how alfalfa responds to Al stress by identifying and analyzing Al-stress-responsive genes in alfalfa roots at the whole-genome scale. The transcriptome cha...