Abstract The experiment studied the effects of different levels Rumex patientia spp. leaf powder inclusion in laying hens’ diets on their physical parameters and yolk color intensity. study was conducted 168 Hy-line hens (30 weeks aged), assigned 3 treatment groups (C, E1 E2) housed an experimental hall equipped with Big Dutchman cages, placed tiers digestibility cages (3 treatments × 28 replic...

Plants used to treat inflammatory ailments, pain, fever and infections in the Pamir Mountains in northeastern Afghanistan, were tested for antibacterial and COX-1 inhibitory activity. Water and ethanol extracts of 20 species were tested for antibacterial activity against two gram positive and two gram negative bacteria. The ethanol extract of Arnebia guttata inhibited Staphylococcus aureus with...

addition, different kinds of neuropathies are one of the major complications contributing to morbidity in patients with diabetes mellitus. Pathological studies have also suggested that diabetes is one of the risk factors for senile dementia of Alzheimer’s type (4). Although many studies about the relationship between diabetes and peripheral neuropathy have been done to date, however, the effect...

Leaf discs from expanding leaves of Rumex patientia L. were exposed to 7 hours of visible plus different levels of ultraviolet radiation in the 290 to 315 nm waveband (UV-B) and then placed in darkness. Leaf disc expansion was reduced and anthocyanin production was increased in discs exposed to moderate or high levels of UV-B radiation when compared to control discs. The possibility that the in...

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Throughout the history of mankind, various plants (medicinal aromatics etc.) have been used naturally to prevent all diseases, or they in a wide range fields, especially pharmaceutical industry, by cultivating agriculture/greenhouse areas. However, as result protection and coloring wood material chemically, indoor contamination causes negative effects on human health. The main objective this st...