Metastasis is the major cause of cancer-related deaths. Targeting the process of metastasis has been proposed as a strategy to fight cancer. Scutellaria barbata D. Don (S. barbata), a traditional Chinese medicine, is used for treatment of many diseases, including cancer. This study aimed to determine the anti-metastatic effect of total flavonoids of S. barbata (TF-SB) using the human hepatoca...

Lipids and fatty acids (FA) composition of three Black Sea macroalgae Cladophora vagabunda, Ceramium rubrum and Cystoseira barbata were studied. Fatty acids composition was analyzed by GC/MS. Total lipids content varied widely among the species and ranged between 0.66 and 0.98 g per 100 g fresh weight. Generally, saturated fatty acids were major components (62–71%), with 16:0 as the most abunda...

Abstract Black alder ( Alnus glutinosa [L.] Gaertn.) is an important component of riparian and wetland ecosystems in Europe. However, data on the growth this significant broadleaved tree species very limited. Presently, black currently suffers from pathogen Phytophthora particularly threatened by climate change. The objective study was to focus impact climatic variables (precipitation, temperat...

Abstract Tree allometry is a plastic feature, and scaling parameters can vary considerably depending on phylogeny, life strategies, growth conditions ontogeny. We hypothesized that in multi-layered forests growing rich sites driven by stand dynamics without stand-replacing disturbances, light primary driver of allometric relationships the morphological plasticity tree species closely associated...

The recent Landscape Plan of Tuscany Region pays particular attention towards the floodplain woods, for their conservation concern, landscape, and historical importance. forest vegetation is defined as natural semi-natural wood located close to rivers submerged only during exceptional flooding. We gathered 180 both published unpublished relevés coming from carried out in where Alnus glutinosa ,...

Largely consistent with general predictions and earlier empirical studies, it appears that post-Little Ice Age climate warming has started to affect large-scale biogeographic patterns in northern Sweden. Long-term monitoring subalpine adjacent regions reveals sparse spread of broadleaved thermophilic tree species. Saplings Quercus robur, Ulmus glabra, Acer platanoides, Alnus glutinosa Betula pe...