A total of 53 plant essential oils were tested for their insecticidal activities against eggs, nymphs, and adults of Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood, using an impregnated filter paper bioassays without allowing direct contact. Responses varied according to oil type and dose, and developmental stage of the insect. Bay, caraway seed, clove leaf, lemon eucalyptus, lime dis 5 F, pennyroyal, pepp...

Coumarin is a phenolic compound that mainly affects the liver due to its metabolization into a toxic compound. The deterrent and ovicidal activities of coumarin in insect models such as Drosophila melanogaster have been reported. Here we explore the molecular mechanisms by which these insects protect themselves and their eggs from this toxic plant metabolite. Coumarin was fatal to the flies in ...

Background: Schistosomiasis is a chronic debilitating parasitic disease. Long-term repeated use of praziquantel (PZQ) for control of the disease morbidity may lead to resistance or reduced susceptibility to the drug. Artemether (ART), the anti-malarial drug may become an alternative therapy to PZQ as it also displays anti-schistosomal properties. Objective: To assess the effects of artemether e...

background: fascioliasis is a zoonotic disease caused by the liver fluke fasciola hepatica . drug resistance, high costs of treatment and economic losses in meat production have emerged the need of alternative control measures into consideration. the aim of this study was to evaluate the in vitro ovicidal activity of paecilomyces lilacinus fungus on f. hepatica eggs. methods: p. lilacinus isola...

World Health Organization appreciated the importance of medicinal plants for public health care in developing nations. Eclipta alba ( Bhringaraja ) having important role in the traditional Ayurvedic and Unani systems of holistic health and herbal medicine of the east.The principal constituents of Eclipta alba are coumestan derivatives like wedololactone[1.6%], demethylwedelolactone, desmethyl-w...

Resistance of head lice to insecticides with a neurotoxic mode of action, such as permethrin and malathion, is increasing in incidence and geographic extent. As a consequence, physically acting pediculicidal products have emerged. Dimeticones are synthetic silicone oils of low surface tension and can therefore coat most surfaces, thus also killing head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) by physic...