Ornithogalum cuspidatum is an Iranian species of the genus Ornithogalum L. (family: Liliaceae). The species of Ornithogalum are used widely in Iranian traditional medicine for treatment of inflammatory and respiratory disease. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of n-hexane, ethyl acetate, methanol and aqueous extracts of O. cuspidatum leaves...

Propolis is a chemically complex biomass produced by honeybees (Apis mellifera) from plant resins added of salivary enzymes, beeswax, and pollen. The biological activities described for propolis were also identified for donor plant's resin, but a big challenge for the standardization of the chemical composition and biological effects of propolis remains on a better understanding of the influenc...

objective(s) due to increasing emergence of drug-resistance in helicobacter pylori isolates, traditional plants are potentially valuable sources of novel anti-h. pylori agents. in this research, anti-h. pylori activity of the organic extracts of twenty native iranian plants was determined against ten clinical isolates of h. pylori. materials and methods disc diffusion was used to determine the ...

Many species of tea (Camellia sinensis) and cowslip (Echium amoenum) are used in Iranian traditional medicine. The aim of this study was to conduct the survey on the ability of Iranian black tea and cowslip extracts on secretion of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) by non-infected and infected mouse macrophages. A macrophage infection model with Legionella pneumophila and enzyme linked im...

to compare the effects of two herbal extracts, antibiotic, probiotic, and ethanol extract of propolis on performance, relative weight of internal organs, carcass characteristics and morphology of the small intestine of broilers challenged with salmonella enteritidis a trial was performed based on completely randomized design. four hundred and twenty day old male broiler chicks including 7 treat...

BACKGROUND Stress in infancy has dramatic effects on different systems, including the nervous system, endocrine, immune, reproductive and etc. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of extract of Iranian propolis (EIP) on ovarian tissue and oxidative stress in rats with maternal separation stress. MATERIALS AND METHODS 48 immature female rats were divided randoml...

Recebido para publicação em 27/8/2008 Aceito para publicação em 20/6/2009 (003822) 1 Department of Food Science, College of Food Engineering, State University of Campinas – UNICAMP, CEP 13081-970, P.O. Box 6177, Campinas SP, Brazil, E-mail: [email protected] 2 Center for Prostate Disease Research, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences – USUHS, Bethesda MD, USA *A quem a corre...