background and objectives:the plants of genus artemisia (asteraceae) have been conventionally used for prevention and medication of a number of ailments. in the present research, ten extracts with different polarities from aerial parts of two artemisia species, a. kopetdaghensis and a. turcomanica were evaluated for their potential anti-malarial properties. methods: the plant materials were ext...

The symbiotic microorganisms found in some groups of insects present many stimulating problems from both the evolutionary and the physiological standpoint. Of particular interest are the symbiotes, usually referred to as bacteroids, of the Blattaria, which were first reported by Blochmann in 1887. These microorganisms have been found in every species of cockroach thus far investigated and also ...

Background and objectives: The aerial parts of Artemisia marschalliana Sprengel as an indigenous species of genus Artemisia in the East Azerbaijan province of Iran, was subjected to phytochemical analysis, as well asanti-proliferative, free-radical-scavenging and anti-malarialactivities. Methods: The chemical composition of the essential oil o...

It was shown 5 years ago (1) that the change from methemoglobin to hemoglobin could be studied by an electrochemical method. The reduction by means of sodium hydrosulfite and the oxidation of the reduced compound (hemoglobin) by ferricyanide were found to involve 1 equivalent. These results have been confirmed and extended in later work (2). An application of the same method to a study of the r...