background: we evaluated the in vivo activity of bunium persicum (boiss) essential oil on infected mice with acute toxoplasmosis. methods: to evaluate prophylactic effects, male nmri mice received b. persicum essential oil at the concentrations of 0.05 and 0.1 ml/kg for 14 days . after 24 h mice were infected intraperitonealy with 1×10 4 tachyzoites of t. gondii, rh strain. in order to investig...

Background: Teucrium persicum, a well-known Iranian endemic plant, has been used to treat various diseases in traditional medicine. Objectives: This study aimed assess the antioxidant and cytotoxic effects of chloroform ethyl acetate extracts T. persicum on cancer cell lines. Methods: The total phenolic flavonoid contents, as well potential were assayed. GC-MS analysis was detect chemical const...

Bunium persicum (Boiss.) is an economically important medicinal plant growing wild in arid regions in Iran. The essential oil of B. persicum (EOBP) was extracted using hydrodistillation. A total of eighteen compounds, representing 96.14 % of the oil was identified by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS).The main compounds were cuminaldehyde (23.04 %), gamma-terpinene (14.48 %), trans-3-...

Stem and leaf anatomy of Origanum rotundifolium Boiss., O. vulgare L. ssp. viride (Boiss.) Hayek, Teucrium hircanum L., belonging to Lamiaceae were characterized and compared. Some important differences were determined in the taxa. In addition, trichome diversity was investigated by light microscopy and three main types of trichomes (peltate, capitate glandular and non-glandular) were observed ...

background & aim: medicinal plants are most valuable and useful sources as productive factors of drugs. production and extraction of secondary metabolites have a huge economical importance in recent years. carvone is a compound in bunium persicum fruit and shoot and, it is one of the wide range varieties of valuable and useful secondary metabolites. due to limited crop production, using app...

CONTEXT Despite several pharmacological applications of the medicinal plants in the Traditional Arabic Palestinian Herbal Medicine in Palestine (TAPHM), studies on their antioxidant properties are still scarce. OBJECTIVE This work evaluates the antioxidant and antitumor activities of the ethanol extracts from different parts of six plants: [Arum palaestinum Boiss (Araceae), Urtica pilulifera ...