Indiscriminate and excessive uses of antibiotics may be lead promote the emergence of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms and side effects in patients. Therefore the researchers recently have focused on the use of natural resources, especially medicinal plants. Ruta graveolens is a kind of medical plants which contains antifungal and antibacterial components and use in traditional medicine in I...

Two S-adenosyl-L-methionine:furanocoumarin O-methyltransferases of R. graveolens, acting at the 5- and 8-hydroxyl of the psoralen nucleus, were completely resolved by adsorption on a general affinity ligand, 5-(3-carboxypropanamido) xanthotoxin, followed by specific desorption by bergaptol and xanthotoxol, respectively. The 5-O-methyltransferase was purified 450-fold by this procedure, the 8-O-...

rue, ruta graveolens, is a medicinal plant in traditional medicine that has several therapeutic properties such as anti-carcinogenic agent, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, hypotensive, and spasmolytic. this study was carried out to evaluate the antibacterial effects of the etanolic extract of rue against piscine pathogenic bacteria viz. lactococcus garvieae and aeromonas hydrophi...

BACKGROUND Throughout history women have tried to control or enhance their fertility using herbal remedies, with various levels of societal support. Caribbean folk medicine has been influenced by European folk medicine, either through the early Spanish and French settlers or through the continuous immigration of Spanish-speaking peoples from Venezuela. Some folk uses are ancient and were docume...

The first syntheses of two quinoline alkaloids found in the medicinal herb Ruta chalepensis are reported via the conjugate addition of an o-iodoaniline to an acetylenic sulfone, followed by Pd-catalyzed carbonylation, intramolecular acylation of the corresponding sulfone-stabilized carbanion, and reductive desulfonylation.

O uso das plantas medicinais, também conhecido como fitoterapia, é um recurso terapêutico utilizado desde a antiguidade, com o objetivo de prevenir ou tratar enfermidades nos animais estimação. A vantagem utilizar fitoterapia tratamento seu custo benefício. Atualmente doença mais comum e recorrente cães são as dermatites. As bactérias comumente encontradas colonizando pele são: Staphylococcus p...

El estudio tuvo como objetivo evaluar el efecto repelente y tiempo de protección aceites esenciales frente al mosquito adulto Aedes aegypti. Se trabajó con un diseño completamente azar arreglo factorial que incluyó 10 (Minthostachys mollis, Schinus molle, Ruta graveolens, Piper aduncun, Myrica pubescens, Lippia alba, Mentha piperita, Lantana glutinosa, Cymbopogon citratus, Eucalyptus globulus c...