pistachio oil has important nutritional and therapeutic properties because of high concentration of essential fatty acids. the extraction method used to obtain natural compounds from raw matter is critical for product quality and especially protection of nutrition value of them. the study was conducted to compare fatty acid composition of pistachio oil extracted by two conventional procedures: ...

ducrosia anethifolia (dc.) boiss. is belongs to the apiaceae family. it is one of the three species of iranian ducrosia boiss. species growing wild in several areas of the country. in this research, we extracted the essential oil and it analyzed by gc/ms. the analysis of essential oil from leaves of d. anethifolia about 19 constituents was identifed and percentage composition was determined (94...

the objective of the study was to evaluate thecytotoxic effects of aqueous fruit extract of cucumis melo in human prostate cancer cell line (pc-3) using mttand 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 activitieswere exhibited by human prostate carcinoma pc-3 cell l...

Hibiscus rosasinensis flowers and leaves are available all over India and well known for its Antidiabetic property. In the present investigation aqueous extract and ethanolic extract of the flowers and leaves were made using soxhlet apparatus, water extract and maceration. The qualitative Phytochemical screening procedure was performed on each extract. Phytochemical study reveals that alkaloids...

Poverty, drug resistance and other factors including increasing difficulty in the control of mosquitoes (the vector of the causative organism of malaria), have led to a growing interest in phytochemical research. The antioxidant activity of Newbouldia laevis stem bark was investigated. Air dried stem bark of N. laevis was powdered and extracted with 95 % v/v methanol by maceration, and the extr...

Rhizomes of Boesenbergia pandurata (Roxb.) Schlecht have been reported to contain active compounds with anticancer properties. This research was carried out to examine anti-proliferative and apoptotic induction against HeLa and Vero cells-line. Dried powder of B. pandurata rhizomes was extracted by a maceration method using 90% ethanol. Cytotoxic assays to determine IC50 and anti-proliferative ...

The Anthelmintic activities of methanolic and aqueous extracts of stems of Achyranthes aspera linn. were evaluated separately on Indian adult earthworms Pheretima posthuma (Annelida). For this work the stems were extracted separately with methanol and distilled water by following maceration method. Various concentrations (2.5, 5, 10, 20 mg/ml) of each extract were tested for anthelmintic activi...

Cryogenic storage of sperm from genetically altered Xenopus improves cost effectiveness and animal welfare associated with their use in research; currently it is routine for X. tropicalis but not reliable for X. laevis. Here we compare directly the three published protocols for Xenopus sperm freeze-thaw and determine whether sperm storage temperature, method of testes maceration and delays in t...

DNA isolation from some fungal organisms of agronomic importance is difficult because they have cell walls or capsules that are relatively unsusceptible to lysis. We have developed a fast DNA isolation protocol for Fusarium oxysporum, which causes fusarium wilt disease in more than 100 plant species, and for Pyrenochaeta terrestris, which causes pink root in onions. This protocol was based on t...