OBJECTIVE Osteoporosis or silent disease is a major bone disorder in elderly women in current century. Estrogen has an important role in osteogenesis and prevention of bone fractures. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is usually accompanied by such effects as breast and ovary cancers. Thus, there is an increasing demand for replacement with plant phytoestrogens. This study is focused on determi...

OBJECTIVES Astrodaucus persicus, Apiaceae, is used as vegetable or food additive in some parts of Iran. The essential oils of different parts of Astrodaucus persicus from Kordestan province were analyzed for the first time and compared with other regions. In this study, antioxidant activities and total phenols determination of aerial parts essential oils and root fractions of A. persicus were i...

Commercial plant essential oils obtained from 11 Myrtaceae plant species were tested for their fumigant antifungal activity against Aspergillus ochraceus, A. flavus, and A. niger. Essential oils extracted from Leptospermum petersonii at air concentrations of 56 × 10(-3) mg/mL and 28 × 10(-3) mg/mL completely inhibited the growth of the three Aspergillus species. However, at an air concentration...

The present study was aimed to investigate, the chemical composition of essential oil extracted by hydrodistillation from Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.) harvested in South-Est, Algeria, and evaluate its antifungal allelopathic activities. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry GC-MS analysis F. showed presence 11 components, alpha.-phellandrene (29.44%) found as main component. tested on seeds...

Twenty seven essential oils, isolated from plants representing 11 families of Portuguese flora, were screened for their nematicidal activity against the pinewood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. The essential oils were isolated by hydrodistillation and the volatiles by distillation-extraction, and both were analysed by GC and GC-MS. High nematicidal activity was achieved with essenti...

Polylactic acid (PLA) is a biodegradable polymer that widely used in medical devices, drug delivery systems, fibers for packaging containers and textiles. However, given interactions between the materials contact with it affect its applications, important to study adsorption diffusion properties. The capacity of different polylactic particles regarding additives, e.g. essential oils (Thymus vul...

Background: Essential oils constitute a major class of natural products. They possess various biological activities like anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, analgesic, and antimicrobial have immense application in food, cosmetics pharmaceutical industries. In the current study, essential were extracted from six medicinal plants including Myristica fragrans (endosperm seed or karnel mace), Illicium...