H. H. Cornnell, S. C. Grant, J. T. Rosenberg, P. Foroutan, A. D. Sherry, A. S. Edison, and G. A. Walter Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Florida State University, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Chemistry and Bioche...

1. This document is ENY-830 (formerly NFREC21), one of a series of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, Florida Cooperative Extensin Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Date first printed: unknown. Revised: June 2005. Reviewed: June 2008. Please visit the EDIS Website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Richard Sprenkel, professor emeritus, Departmen...

Background & Aim: Medicinal plants are used in traditional medicine for the treatment of different diseases such as hypertension. Since inhibition of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) is one of the involved mechanisms in control of hypertension, in this study the inhibitory effect of 20 medicinal plants on ACE was investigated. Methods: The medicinal plants were collected, powdered, extracted...

several lichen species have been used for medicinal purposes throughout the ages, and they were reported to be effective in the treatment of different disorders including tuberculosis, hemorrhoids, ulcer, dysentery and cancer. it is revealed that they may be easily accessible sources of natural drugs that could be used as a possible food supplement or in pharmaceutical industry after their safe...

Japanese silver grass (Miscanthus sinensis) and 14 cultivars were transplanted in northern and southern Florida and evaluated for landscape performance, fl owering, growth, and seed viability. All plants survived the 84-week study at both locations with the exception of ‘Morning Light’, where 22% to 33% of the plants died. In northern and southern Florida, ‘Arabesque’, ‘Adagio’, ‘Cosmopolitan’,...