in order to evaluation the effect of nigella sativa supplementation on performance, immune response and some of blood parameters, a total of 192 one day old ross 308 broilers were used in a completely randomize design with four treatments, four replicates and 12 observations in each replicate. treatments included the increasing levels of zero (control), 0.4, 0.8 and 1.2 percent nigella sativa. ...

Nigella sativa has been marked as precious medicinal herb consisting various bioactive compounds including Thymoquinone and very strengthen evidences can be found in literature this regard. popularized a miracle against pathogenic microorganisms human infected deleterious viral species such Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Hepatitis C (HCV). Recent animal studies have proved that, seed extrac...

osting by E Abstract In this investigation, the effects of Sidr honey, Nigella sativa oil (black-seed oil) and Sidr honey and black-seed oil together on the ultrastructure of tegument, gastrodermis and testes of adult male Schistosoma mansoni harbored in albino mice were studied. The tegument of adult male S. mansoni recovered from mice treated with various types of treatments revealed apparent...

objective: diabetes is an important risk factor for cardiovascular events. the great percent of morbidity in patients with diabetes is due to endothelial dysfunction. the present study investigated the effects of hydroalcholic extract of nigella sativa (n. sativa)  on contractile and dilatation response of isolated aorta in streptozotocin (stz)-induced diabetic rat. materials and methods: rats ...

in the previous studies the relaxant, anti-cholinergic (functional antagonism) and anti-histaminic effects of nigella sativa have been demonstrated on guinea pig tracheal chains. to elucidate the main substance responsible for the relaxant effect of this plant, the effect of thymoquinone, one of the main constituent of nigella sativa was examined in this study. the bronchodilatory effects of th...

Application of most antibiotic growth promoters as feed additives has been banned in a lot of countries due to cross-resistance against pathogens and residues in tissues. Therefore, scientists are searching for alternatives to antibiotics nowadays. Medicinal plant extracts are one of the alternatives that have anti-microbial and growth promoting effect on poultry. In this paper, the benefits of...