in order to evaluate the allelopathic potential of sunflower (helianthus annus l.) organs on germination and growth of dodder (cuscuta compestris l.), series studies were conducted in three separate experiments; as factorial based on completely randomized design (crd) with three replications for each experiments. first experiment was conducted in petri dishes and consisted of sunflower organs a...

Background: Liver cancer is the second outstanding reason for cancer-related death global and thus a main public health challenge. Plant-based drugs are regarded as promising therapies. Basil and Dracocephalum kotschyi extracts have shown therapeutic impacts on various cancers. Therefore, we assessed the effects of the extract of Basil and Dracocephalum kotschyi on cell proliferation and BCL2 e...

Leaf and stem essential oils of Lonchocarpus cyanescens Benth., (Fabaceae) were obtained by hydro-distillation, using all-glass apparatus adapted to British Pharmacopeia specifications with yields of 0.03% and 0.17% respectively. The oils were investigated by GC and GC-MS analyses. Results show seven compounds were responsible for 90.4% of leaf; eleven compounds responsible for 97.6% of stem vo...

The aim of this study was investigate antihyperglycemic effect of ethyl acetate extracts of leaves and stem of Hypericum hookerianum (HH) as in streptozotocin and nicotinamide induced diabetic rats. Male Wistar rats were administrated with leaf (HHL) and stem(HHS) extracts (200 mg/kg)of Hypericum hookerianum orally for 28days and blood glucose was measured once in week about 4weeks.The HHL extr...

The CH(2)Cl(2)-MeOH (1:1) extract of the leaves of Hintonia standleyana and H. latiflora caused significant decrease in blood glucose levels in both normal and streptozotozin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats when compared with vehicle-treated groups (p < 0.05). These extracts were not toxic to mice according to the Lorke criteria. From the hypoglycemic extract of H. standleyana, two new 4-phenylcoum...

medicinal plants are a source of great economic value all over the world. nature has bestowed on us a very rich botanical wealth and large number of diverse types of plants grows in different parts of the country. in this study the in vitro antimicrobial activity of crude ethanolic, methanolic and water extracts of the stem bark of o.basilicum were investigated. the extracts exhibited antimicro...

Purpose: To investigate the in vivo antiplasmodial effect of Mangifera indica aqueous extract Plasmodium berghei-infected mice, and to characterize its phytochemical constituents their mechanism action.&#x0D; Methods: The plant leaves (250.71 g) stem bark (509.34 were weighed, macerated 5 L boiled, distilled water for 72 h, filtered. In evaluation was carried out using mice. leaf extracts subje...

gum of butea monosperma is used to treat microbial and fungal infections in folk medicine. to validate this use, the in- vitro antimicrobial activity of petroleum ether and alcoholic extract of butea monosperma gum was evaluated against various microbial strains such as staphylococcus aureus, bacillus subtilis, bacillus cereus, salmonella typhimurium , pseudomonas aeuriogenosa, escherichia coli...