Insulin resistance is a condition in which insulin signaling and action are impaired in insulin sensitive tissues and results in hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Our previous studies have shown that rosa damascena has antihyperglycemic effects on diabetic and normal rats. Therefore, we conducted a study to evaluate the effect of this medicinal plant on insulin sensiti...

Hydrosols are hydrodistillation products of aromatic plants. They contain less than 1g/L of dispersed essential oils giving organoleptic properties. Hydrosols are subjected to microbial proliferation. Reasons for spoilage have to be found in the nature of substrates supporting growth and of microbiological contaminants. The composition in essential oils and the microbiota of 22 hydrosol samples...

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Hybridization is one way to produce Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. which have various shape and colour of flowers. However, this hampered by the possibility self-incompatibility in To identify simplest methods are used observing morphology anatomy fruit development, followed a descriptive analysis data that has been obtained. The results on crossing artificial pollination 103 flowers single pink sho...