Essential oils are widely recognized as natural alternatives to pharmaceutical antibacterial and antifungal agents. With respect standard pharmaceutics, the advantages of essential their (i) low production costs, (ii) lack chemical biochemical drawbacks that intrinsic synthetic process (iii) good tolerance by humans. On other hand, liquid nature poses concerns about actual application in differ...

xanthine oxidase plays crucial roles in the production of reactive oxygen species (ros), and uric acid in blood which may lead to gout, one of the oldest known forms of arthritis amongst humans. summer savory (satureja hortensis l.) a medicinal/spice exhibits antioxidant activity, but unknown effects on xanthine oxidase activity. here, for the first time, we examined the effects of s. hortensis...

Anorectic effects of caffeine are controversial in the literature, while stress and obesity are growing problems in our society. Since many stressed people are coffee drinkers, the objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of stress and chronic administration of caffeine on feeding behavior and body weight in male and female rats. Wistar rats (both males and females) were divide...

in order to study the effect of fertilizer management on summer savory production, a field experiment was conducted at the agricultural research station, college of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran during growing season of 2009. a randomized complete block design with three replications was used. treatments included: 1) nitroxin biofertilizer 2) phosphate solubilizing bacteria ...

in order to study, the effect of pre-cooling treatment, osmotic potential and water stress on some population of two species of satureja bachtiarica and satureja sahendica was studied by a factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with three replications in laboratory and greenhouse conditions during one year in the gene bank of institute of forests and range lands by the years...

Supercritical fluid extraction of the volatile oil of the aerial part of the winter savory was carried out in different conditions of pressure, temperature, mean particle size and CO2 flow rate and the results were compared with those obtaining by hydrodistillation with a Clevenger-type apparatus. The non-volatile components were extracted by SFE at higher pressures and by soxhlet extraction wi...