The larval food plant of the Apochima diaphanaria ssp. rjabovi (Wehrli, 1936) in Geometridae family has not been known until now. In this study, medicinal plants Ferula haussknechtii H. Wolff ex Rech.f., Prangos uloptera DC. (Apiaceae) and Rheum ribes L. (Polygonaceae) species are identified for first time as rjabovi. addition, Drino imberbis (Wiedemann, 1830) (Diptera, Tachinidae) is recorded ...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the levels irisin in heart, which is a vital organ, rats different ages and reveal whether Ferula elaeochytris (FE) has an effect on expression irisin. 
 Materials Methods: Our designed six groups, young (4 months), middle age (12 old (24 months) were given FE extract for 8 weeks their control groups. After that heart tissues taken measured b...

Background: Ferula species have shown wide range of pharmacological properties but there is no study on oral safety profile of Ferula persica due to standard toxicology guidelines. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the acute and subchronic oral toxicity of the alcoholic extract of the aerial parts of Ferula persica to provide its safe dose for long term oral administrations as a possible...

In recent years, there has been much importance placed on finding novel therapeutic agents from F. asafoetida plant and it’s common name is Asafoetida. It is commonly used as a traditional medicine in Iran, Afghanistan and India. It is herbaceous plant of the Umbelliferae family and its root contains oleo gum resin which has many medicinal properties. The resin is solid or semisolid with alliac...

objective: the genus of ferula belongs to the tribe peucedaneae, subfamily of apioideae and family of umbelliferae with 133 species distributed throughout the mediterranean area and central asia, especially in the former ussr and neighboring countries such as iran. the popular persian name of the most of these species is “koma”. in this research we tried to isolate and elucidate the structure o...