Investigators studying G protein-coupled signaling--often called the best-understood pathway in the world owing to intense research in medical fields--have adopted plants as a new model to explore the plasticity and evolution of G signaling. Much research on plant G signaling has not disappointed. Although plant cells have most of the core elements found in animal G signaling, differences in ne...

Plants have been used for medical purposes since the beginning of human history and are the basis of modern medicine. Most chemotherapeutic drugs for cancer treatment are molecules identified and isolated from plants or their synthetic derivatives. Our hypothesis was that whole plant extracts selected according to ethnobotanical sources of historical use might contain multiple molecules with an...

BACKGROUND An ethnomedicinal study was conducted to document medicinal plants used in the treatment of ailments in villages surrounding Kimboza forest reserve, a low land catchment forest with high number of endemic plant species. METHODS Ethnobotanical interviews on medicinal plants used to treat common illnesses were conducted with the traditional medical practitioners using open-ended semi...

Plants have been used for medical purposes since the beginning of human history and are the basis of modern medicine. Most chemotherapeutic drugs for cancer treatment are molecules identified and isolated from plants or their synthetic derivatives. Our hypothesis was that whole plant extracts selected according to ethnobotanical sources of historical use might contain multiple molecules with an...

Myrtus communis (MC) L. is a well-known Mediterranean plant with important cultural significance in this region. In ancient times, MC was accepted as a symbol of immortality. Maybe due to this belief, it is used during cemetery visits in some regions. Although it is a well-known plant in cosmetics, and there is a lot of studies about its different medical properties, anticancer studies performe...

Trichoderma spp. Is one of the widespread saprophytic fungi in rhizosphere, which have received considerable attention as potential bio-control agents against most of plant pathogens as well as high utility towards medical and industrial sciences. The advent of molecular era could be judiciously utilized for investigations in fungal taxonomy prompted research in the mid-nineties to re-assess th...

DNA Q:4; 5; 6; 7 methylation Mathew Graham Lewsey, Thomas J. Hardcastle, Charles W. Melnyk, Attila Molnar, Adrián Valli, Mark A. Urich, Joseph R. Nery, David C. Baulcombe, and Joseph R. Ecker Genomic Analysis Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037; Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037; Department of Plant Scie...

1Phytomedicine, Toxicology and Reproductive Biochemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, University of Ilorin, Ilorin 240003, Nigeria 2Phytomedicine, Environmental Toxicology and Plant Biochemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin 240001, Nigeria 3Department of Agriculture, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula Universit...

Kenta Nakai [email protected] 1 Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan 2 Plant Functional Genomics Research Team, Functional Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan 3 RIKEN Plant Science Center, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yoko...

The human serious adverse reactions of the folkloric plant, Ecballium elaterium (EE), are well documented in the literature. This report is presenting the medical literature of 74 cases, which experienced severe adverse reactions or deaths that resulted from the administration of the plant juice. The survey of these human cases exhibits several adverse effects such as: acute rhinitis, uvular ed...