Melanoma (MSC) and non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) are the most common cancers in United States. Although NMSC accounts for greater proportion of diagnosed cases, MSC is more aggressive responsible over 80% cancer-related deaths. Adverse effects and/or resistance associated with existing treatment regimens have prompted new research efforts directed toward finding safer efficacious chemoprevent...

Background: Polygonum bistorta has been used as a remedy for jaundice, smallpox, pimples, measles, cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, expelling worms, insect stings and snakebites. In this study, the crude extract from P. bistorta and two fractions viz. hexane and chloroform obtained from the crude extract were studied for their median lethal dosages (LD50) in Swiss albino mice. Methods: Powdered ...

In this study efficacy of essential and fixed oil Laurus nobilis L., on controlling Aphis fabae Scopoli that grows Vicia faba L. (Fabaceae) has been studied by experiments set up in the laboratories Çukurova University Biology Plant Protection Departments 2016-2017. Fixed oils had previously found to be effective aphids according death rate Abbott test values, but they also phytotoxic effects p...

Background and objectives: Ziziphora clinopodioides is a perennial herb and grows widely in west and northwest of Iran. The aerial parts are used as appetizer, carminative and antiseptic as well as for the treatment of medical conditions such as high blood pressure, asthma hyperhidrosis, palpitation and insomnia Methods: The aerial parts of Z...

dpph radical-scavenging activity of the bene hull oil (bho), sesame oil (seo), rice bran oil (rbo), the oils' methanolic (ch3oh/h2o, 80:20 v/v) or hexane extracts, and their unsaponifiable matters fraction were measured and compared with each other. as a radical-scavenger, seo was significantly stronger than rbo and bho, respectively. unlike bho and rbo, the unsaponifiable (usm) fraction of the...

in west africa and nigeria in particular, many virgin plants are still waiting to be evaluated for their medicinal importance. claims of plants with folk medicinal applications need to be evaluated and verified. gomphrena celosioides (family – amaranthaceae) is a weed grown in lawns and the biological activity of the extract had earlier been established. in the present study, the plant was coll...

in this paper we consider several generalizations of the skew t-normal distribution, and some of their properties. also, we represent several theorems for constructing each generalized skew t-normal distribution. next, we illustrate the application of the proposed distribution studying the ratio of two heavy metals, nickel and vanadium, associated with crude oil in shadgan wetland in the south-...