Mohammad M. Zarshenas1,2, Mahmoodreza Moein3,4*, Soliman Mohammadi Samani5, Peyman Petramfar6 1Department of Traditional Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 2Essence of Parsiyan Wisdom Institute, Traditional Medicine and Medicinal Plant Incubator, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 3Medicinal Plants Processing Research Centre, Shira...

background and objectives:plant essential oils are sometimes considered for use as antimicrobial agents in foods and medicines and they could be combined with other antimicrobial agents to strengthen the effect and/or reduce the required dose. this study was conducted to determine the chemical composition of the ocimum basilicum, salvia officinalis and trachyspermum ammi essential oils and eval...

Diabetes resulting from the low secretion of insulin and resistance, is a chronic metabolic disorder. Medication plant materials for treatment Mellitus advised as good source novel drug or leading to preparation drug. We investigated antidiabetic property fractions subfractions obtained ethyl acetate extract Trachyspermum ammi seeds. TLC analysis crude was done. Then column chromatography used ...

objective: ajowan is an annual herbaceous essential oil of carum copticom. the main components of the oil are tymol, β-pinene, γ- terpinene and sabinene.the fruit oil of carum copticum has been reported to have several therapeutic effects including anti fungal, anti bacterial and anti viral,... candida albicans is an opportunistic fungus and transforms into pathogenic form in favorable conditio...

the purpose of this study was to elucidate some factors affecting the growth of salmonella typhimurium. these factors included carum copticum essential oil (0%, 0.015%, 0.03% and 0.06%), temperature (25 ˚c and 35 ˚c), ph (5, 6 and 7) and inoculum size (103 and 105  cfu ml-1). brain heart infusion broth was used as the growth medium. there were 48 treatment combinations and the experiment was ca...

background quorum sensing is a microbial cell-to-cell communication process. quorum sensing bacteria produce and release extracellular messenger molecules called autoinducers. gram-positive and gram-negative, homoserine lactones, and oligopeptides are autoinducers used to communicate and regulate gene expression. objectives the goal of this study was to assess the impact of subinhibitory concen...

medicinal plant powders have traditionally been used as grain protectants against stored-product insect pests. in this study, insecticidal activity of carum copticum l. and cuminum cyminum l. powders was assessed on adults of sitophilus granarius l. and tribolium confusum jacquelin du val. experiments were carried out on wheat at 27 ± 1 ºcand 55 ± 5% r. h. the mortality increased with increasin...

background : the aim of this study was to determine the antibacterial activity of zataria multiflora boiss (avishan-e shirazi) and carum copticum (zenian) extracts on vibrio cholerae american type culture collection (atcc14035)and v. cholerae persian type culture collection (ptcc1611) strains. methods : antimicrobial effects of the extracts were assayed by disc diffusion and broth microdilution...