Shoot cultures of Artemisia annua L. were cultivated in three different micropropagation systems: an ultrasonic nutrient mist bioreactor (UNMB), a modified ultrasonic nutrient mist bioreactor (MUNMB) and solid culture in Magenta boxes. The shoots cultivated in the UNMB and MUNMB showed excellent growth. The dry weight increase (35 times) of shoot cultures in the MUNMB was higher than those (25 ...

Introduction: Artemisia dracunculus L. belongs to Asteraceae family, and is a medicinal plant widely used in traditional medicine as a remedy for gastrointestinal disturbances. This study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of essential oil of A. dracunculus (EOAD) on the rat alimentary tract. Methods: The EOAD was extracted by Clevenger apparatus using hydrodistillation. LD50 was calcula...

Copepods infected with Dracunculus medinensis larvae collected from infected dogs in Chad were fed to 2 species of fish and tadpoles. Although they readily ingested copepods, neither species of fish, Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) nor fathead minnow (Pimephalis promelas), were found to harbor Dracunculus larvae when examined 2-3 weeks later. Tadpoles ingested copepods much more slowly; ho...

Tarragon Consulting Corporation (henceforth Tarragon) contributed two runs to the new Common Core track. Both were manual runs using the NIST judged topics. Both used Solr as the base search engine with the queries semi-automatically constructed from the Topic descriptions and augmented with information from Wordnet and Wikipedia. Results are generally below the published median scores but for ...

OBJECTIVE To make an useful identification method for the molecule of DNA on 3 herbs of Artemisia genus and compare the differences of the genes of Korean and Chinese species of Artemisia. METHODS Sequence of 3 herbs (Artemisia sacrorum Ledeb., Artemisia iwayomogi Kitam. and Artemisia capillaris Thunb.) was determined by PCR sequence system. DNA was extracted from rDNA/ITS (internal transcrib...

We tested whether polyphenolic substances in extracts of commercial culinary herbs and spices would inhibit fructose-mediated protein glycation. Extracts of 24 herbs and spices from a local supermarket were tested for the ability to inhibit glycation of albumin. Dry samples were ground and extracted with 10 volumes of 50% ethanol, and total phenolic content and ferric reducing antioxidant poten...