Cucurbitaceae is known as a source of vegetable oil that can be used in the fields food, medicine, and cosmetics. Several studies showed from contains squalene. Squalene high-economic value compound was originally found shark liver oil. This proven to very beneficial for health The objectives study are determine fatty acid profile squalene content cucumber seed using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spe...

conclusions ethanol extracts of p. granatum (pericarp, leaves, flowers, seeds) have antibacterial effects against p. haemolytica which has shown resistance to all studied antibiotics. background continuous researches on drugs that solve the problem of growing number of resistant bacteria are important. objectives this research aims to investigate the effectiveness of anti-bacterial properties s...

The oil from the seeds of Borago officinalis L. (borage) is a major commercial source of ?-linolenic acid. The fatty acid has a great potential therapeutic value in the treatment of several diseases. In the present work the efficiency of high pressure extraction of borage seed oil containing ?linolenic acid in high concentrations was investigated. Extraction was performed by semicontinuous flow...

Background: Nowadays stored–product insect pests are controlled by pesticides and chemical fumigant compounds. The continueous use of chemical pesticides is harmful for non–target creatures specially humans and other mammals. Beside they polluted the environment. Objective: Accoring to the studies, the essential oil of Labiatae plants have insecticidal activity against some pests. In this st...

The essential oils are frequently used in food processing industry, perfumery, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Most of the oils obtained by steam distillation and water distillation. It is necessary to specify the best conditions of essential oils production to get much more major compound(s) and higher yield oil. So, fennel oil was selected in this study. The objective of this work was to ident...