To cite: Machado M, Vidal RL, Cardoso P, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2015-213388 DESCRIPTION A 3-year-old boy presented with pigmented (brownish) macules on his hands (figure 1), left arm (figure 2) and face (figure 3). The lesions appeared days after the boy played with common rue and were best noticed after sun exposure. Topical treat...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Uncontrolled usage of existing drugs the number of cases of tuberculosis throughout the world has been increasing rapidly, due to the emergence of Multi-drug resistant MTB strains, there is a need for new and novel sources of antimycobacterial drugs especially from the natural products. In this...

Background: Standardization of herbal drugs is very important for quality control. It improves the safety and efficacy drug to provide best possible medicine society. Unani polyherbal Formulation comprising Tukhm-e-Suddab (Ruta graveolens), Zanjabeel (Zingiber officinale), Luk-e-maghsool (Laccifer lacca / Coccus lacca) Marzanjosh (Origanum vulgare L.) mentioned by Hakim Najmul Ghani in his trea...

Celery (Apium graveolens L.) is one of the most economically important vegetables worldwide, but genetic and genomic resources supporting celery molecular breeding are quite limited, thus few studies on celery have been conducted so far. In this study we made use of simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers generated from previous celery transcriptome sequencing and attempted to detect the genetic d...

Helicobacter pylori es una bacteria Gram negativa, con alta prevalencia a nivel mundial, la infección causa úlceras gástricas, duodenales y cáncer, se considera uno de los principales problemas salud pública en México. El trabajo evalúa in vitro actividad antioxidante, tóxica, antibacteriana yla capacidad inhibir biopelícula formada por H. del extracto metanólico Juglans regia (EMJR) extractos ...