BACKGROUND Antioxidant enrichment of LDL can increase its resistance to oxidation and hence reduce its atherogenicity. The objective of the present study was to investigate whether in vivo supplementation with nonalcoholic red wine extract and quercetin can increase the oxidative resistance of LDL, and also whether the supplementation has any effect on other antioxidative micronutrients present...

Red fruit (Pandanus conoideus Lam) is one of the fruits commonly consumed as diet by societies, especially in Papua, Indonesia. Preliminary research revealed that among three extracts of red fruit evaluated, ethyl acetate extract had the highest antiradical activities; therefore, this research was directed to fractionate ethyl acetate extract, evaluate antioxidant activities using in vitro meth...

Objective(s) This study was aimed to assess the possible laxative and prokinetic effects of the boiled extract of Rosa damascena. Materials and Methods Rats in two groups (n= 7) of test and control were gavaged either with the extract or placebo, respectively. The number, weight and water percentage of feces were studied up to 24 hr. In order to assess the possible osmotic laxative effects of t...

Pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia is a benign condition defined by an exuberant proliferation of the epithelium with downward progression into the dermis. It may occur in reaction to several conditions including chronic cutaneous wound. We describe an unusual case of a florid pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia mimicking a well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma, restricted to the red part of...

background and objectives: there is a profound inclination among people toward consumption of herbs and herbal products. some of these products are harmful while health-promoting potentials of some others should be discovered. in the present study the antibacterial, antioxidant, acute and subchronic and cancer cell toxicity of methanolic and aqueous extracts of rosa damascena mill. was studied....

this experiment was set to study the allelopatic effect of aqueous and alcoholic extracts of artemisia, coriander, eucalyptus and cumin on growth of red root pigweed and lambsquarters weeds at laboratory and field in the university of tehran (karaj-iran) in 2008. the herbal plant samples were ground and powdered for extraction preparation, and were mixed with distilled water in a beaker. the ex...

the objective of the study was to evaluate the cytotoxic effects of aqueous extract of cucumis melo fruit on human prostate cancer cell line (pc-3) using mtt and neutral red assays. the crude aqueous extract of c. melo was prepared by cold maceration method, filtered, concentrated and tested on pc-3 cell line. dose-dependent cytotoxic activities were exhibited on human prostate carcinoma pc-3 c...

A β-glucosidase producing yeast strain was isolated from Korean traditional rice wine. Based on the sequence of the YCL008c gene and analysis of the fatty acid composition, the isolate was identified as Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain HJ-014. S. cerevisiae HJ-014 produced ginsenoside Rd, F2, and compound K from the ethanol extract of red ginseng. The production was increased by shaking culture,...