in order to investigate the medicinal species from montain of shirkooh (up village), in yazd provience, iran on three species by scientific names were heracleum persicum desf. ex fisch., c.a.mey. & avé-lall.; ziziphora clinopodioides lam. and nepeta asterotricha rech.f. were collected on june, july and august 2011. then all samples essential oils were extracted by hydro-distillation method (cla...

due to the uncensored use of pesticides in the agricultural regions of lebanon, the contaminationrisks of drinking water by organic residues increase periodically in planting seasons. no previous work havebeen considered in north lebanon plain concerning pesticide pollution though it is the second agriculturalzone in lebanon with an excessive activity. in this context, the aim of this study was...

many of the persistent organic pollutants (pops) with endocrine disrupting properties are monitored regularly by risk assessors with limited resources, where analytical procedures are usually laborious, expensive, and not ecofriendly. moreover, these analyses were frequently advanced aiming one class of pollutants, consequently inefficient to correspond the demand of monitoring a quickly rising...

background & aim:zea mays leaf used traditionally in ibibio ethno medicine in southern nigeria to treat malaria and other inflammatory diseases. these anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties were evaluated against experimentally induced inflammation and pains using standard models. experimental: the effects of ethanol leaf extract of zea mays (170 -510 mg/kg) on experimentally induced inflam...

in this work the chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of pelargonium roseum leaves essential oil that grown in southwest of iran were determined. the hydrodistilled volatile components were identified by gc/ms analysis. a total of 33 components have been identified in the oil, representing 99.38% of the total oil and citronellol (44.63%), citronellyl formate (14.22%), isomenthon (6.3...

objective(s):various species of genus trigonella are important from medical and culinary points of view. the essential oil of trigonella torbatejamensis ranjbar as an endemic plant in iran has not been studied previously. the essential oil of this plant was analyzed by different methods for identification of its components. materials and methods: the essential oil composition of aerial parts of...

Prospective epidemiologic studies generally rely on 1 baseline biologic sample from participants for measurement of prediagnostic biomarkers, assuming that 1 measurement adequately represents the participant's "typical" level. The body of work assessing the reproducibility of circulating serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels over time focuses almost exclusively on populations of European d...