Salvia genus, representative for the Lamiaceae family as it comprises approximately one thousand different species, is considered a wide plethora of therapeutic actions, such antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective, antitumoral and antidiabetic activity. The paper presents preliminary chromatographic investigations polyphenols in aerial parts some spp. Using high-performance thin-layer...

Medicinal and aromatic plant species are important sources of secondary metabolites with therapeutic, cosmetic, and food processing applications. The quality of the metabolites, however, frequently varies due to inconsistencies in secondary metabolite composition of plant extracts, especially within the family Lamiaceae. A major contributing factor to these metabolite inconsistencies is undoubt...

Leaves and stems of three different herbs from two different families were used to extract phenolic compounds and the bioactivity of the extracts was evaluated by using 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl or DPPH scavenging ability or their antioxidant activities. Extract from leaves of mint, which belongs to Lamiaceae family contained 1.24 mgGAE/100 mL of total phenolic compounds and 34.21% antioxi...

Ines Ben Chobba, Ahmed Bekir, Riadh Ben Mansour, Noureddine Drira, Néji Gharsallah and Adel Kadri Laboratoire de Biotechnologies Végétales Appliquées à l’Amélioration des Cultures, Faculté des Sciences de Sfax, B.P. 1171, 3000 Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia. Département de Génie des procédés, ISET Sfax, Km 2,5 Rte de Mahdia, 3099 Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia. Unité de recherche Biotechn...