Saffron, Crocus sativus L. (C. sativus) is rich in carotenoids and used in traditional medicine for treatment of various conditions such as coughs, stomach disorders, amenorrhea, asthma and cardiovascular disorders. These therapeutic effects of the plant are suggested to be due to its relaxant effect on smooth muscles. The effect of C. sativus and its constituents on different smooth muscles an...

Lathyrus sativus (grass pea) is a temperate grain legume crop with a great potential for expansion in dry areas or zones that are becoming more drought-prone. It is also recognized as a potential source of resistance to several important diseases in legumes, such as ascochyta blight. Nevertheless, the lack of detailed genomic and/or transcriptomic information hampers further exploitation of gra...

Memory-related disorders are a common public health issue. Memory impairment is frequent in degenerative diseases (such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson disease), cerebral injuries, and schizophrenia. The dried stigma of the plant Crocus sativus L. (C. sativus), commonly known as saffron, is used in folk medicine for various purposes. Several lines of evidence suggest that C. sativus and it...

Saffron or Crocus sativus L. (C. sativus) has been widely used as a medicinal plant to promote human health, especially in Asia. The main components of saffron are crocin, picrocrocin and safranal. The median lethal doses (LD50) of C. sativus are 200 mg/ml and 20.7 g/kg in vitro and in animal studies, respectively. Saffron has been suggested to be effective in the treatment of a wide range of d...

BACKGROUND Signal transduction through the hydrolysis of glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI) leading to the release of the water-soluble inositol phosphoglycan (IPG) molecules has been demonstrated to be important for mediating some of the actions of insulin and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I). MATERIALS AND METHODS In the present study, GPI from grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) seeds has be...

Raphanus sativus L. belongs to family Brassicaceae and is more commonly known as Radish. Radish has long been grown as a food crop and are of high medicinal value. R. sativus seeds and leaves contain ‘raphanin’ which has been found to possess antibacterial and antifungal potential. In the present study, R. sativus root juice was evaluated for its antimicrobial potential against five bacterial s...

Introduction In Tunisia the genus Lathyrus is represented by 15 native species , distributed essentially in marginal environments in the north of the country. Many of them are of considerable agronomic interest as forage (L. ochrus and L. articulatus) and as human food (L. cicera and L. sativus). These species are under utilised and in the past little effort has been made to expand the selectio...

objective: saffron is the dried stigmas of crocus sativus l. which has various therapeutic properties in addition to its use as a spice. more than 80% of the world present production of saffron which is about 190 tons is produced in iran. to compare the quality of saffron' from different parts of the world, researcher used one sample from each country. since cultivation of saffron is done in di...

background & aim: saffron extract is widely used in the food industry. saffron (crocus sativus l.) stigmata contain rare water-soluble carotenoids and the major one is crocin and this compound have a antitumor in rate and human losomi cells and other model of cancer cells.  in this research, we are study on effects of cultivation condition and storage on dried stigmata of   crocus sativus l...