BACKGROUND Traditional Chinese medicine Taraxacum officinale has been widely used to treat various inflammatory diseases. Taraxasterol is one of the main active components isolated from Taraxacum officinale. Recently, we have demonstrated that taraxasterol has the in vitro anti-inflammatory effects. This study aims to determine the in vivo anti-inflammatory effects of taraxasterol against anima...

A cDNA encoding a xyloglucan endotransglycosylase (XET) homolog was isolated from nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus) epicotyl RNA. The deduced protein encoded by the corresponding gene, termed XET1, was substantially divergent from a previously isolated nasturtium XET (NXG1) expressed in germinating seed cotyledons but was highly homologous to XET genes isolated from vegetative tissues of several di...

Objective: Aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of Zingiber officinale in mitigating oxidative damage and reproductive toxicity in the testis, induced by chronic dichlorvos administration in male Wistar rats. Methods: Twenty-four adult male Wistar rats were divided into 4 groups of 6 rats in each group. Group I received olive oil (1 ml/kg bwt/day) and served as control group, while Grou...

objective: very recent studies have reported positive effects of dietary nitrate on the oxygen consumption during exercise. this research aimed to study the effect of moderate dose of high-nitrate vegetables, watercress (nasturtium officinale) and red radish (raphanus sativus) compared with a control group on the incremental treadmill exercise test following a standard bruce protocol controlled...

Dendrobium officinale Kimura & Migo (D. officinale) is a precious herbal medicine. In this study, we investigated metabolic mechanism underlying the effect of D. officinale water extract (DOWE) on diabetes prevention in mice after streptozotocin (STZ) exposure using NMR-based metabolomics. Interestingly, we found a decrease in blood glucose and an increase in liver glycogen in mice pretreat...

Dendrobium officinale is one of the most well-known traditional Chinese medicines, and polysaccharide is its main active ingredient. Many studies have investigated the synthesis and accumulation mechanisms of polysaccharide, but until recently, little was known about the molecular mechanism of how polysaccharide is synthesized because no related genes have been cloned. In this study, we cloned ...

Fructose supplementation produced cardinal features of Syndrome-X including significant elevations in seum cholesterol, triglyceride, glucose and insulin and also in body weight. While treatment with methanolic extract of dried rhizomes of Zingiber officinale produced a significant reduction in fructose induced elevation in lipid levels, bodyweight, hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia, treatment...