Background: Ethnobotanical investigations conducted in Turkey demonstrated that Jasminum fruticans L. extract and fruit juice had been used against parasites animals. In this study, the possible antihelmintic activity of various J. extracts contributing to its traditional use, was relatively assessed. addition, antioxidant potentials phytochemical composition were investigated since there is a ...

Caudatin is a potential antitumor agent isolated from the traditional Chinese medicine "baishouwu", which was the root tuber of Cynanchum auriculatum Royle ex Wight. In our previous studies, caudatin showed selectivity on human hepatoma cell line SMMC7721 among several different tumor cell lines, and further in vivo tests validated the inhibitory action of caudatin against hepatic cancer using ...

Zebrafish have recently emerged as an attractive model for the in vivo bioassay-guided isolation and characterization of pharmacologically active small molecules of natural origin. We carried out a zebrafish-based phenotypic screen of over 3000 plant-derived secondary metabolite extracts with the goal of identifying novel small-molecule modulators of the BMP and Wnt signaling pathways. One of t...

Crosses among single-, double- and multi-petal jasmine cultivars (Jasminum sambac Aiton) are unable to easily generate hybrids. To identify the reproductive barriers restricting hybrid set, dynamic changes in jasmine pollen viability and pistil receptivity were compared at different flowering stages. Pollen-pistil interactions in six reciprocal crosses were also investigated to characterize pol...

during the years 2007 and 2008, samples of winter jasmine (jasminum nudiflorum) with symptoms of galls on shoots were collected from shiraz, fars province, iran. gram and oxidase negative, aerobic bacterium that produced fluorescent pigment on kingۥs b medium was isolated from galls of infected trees. all isolates produced a hypersensitive reaction in tobacco. they were negative in arginine dih...