نتایج جستجو برای: saffron

تعداد نتایج: 1574  

Journal: :Molecules 2010
Ehsan Karimi Ehsan Oskoueian Rudi Hendra Hawa Z E Jaafar

Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) belongs to the Iridaceae family. The stigma of saffron has been widely used as spice, medicinal plant, and food additive in the Mediterranean and Subtropical countries. Recently, attention has been paid to the identification of new sources of safe natural antioxidants for the food industry. The antioxidant activities of spices are mainly attributed to their phenolic ...

Journal: :Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association 2013
Zacharoula I Linardaki Malvina G Orkoula Alexandros G Kokkosis Fotini N Lamari Marigoula Margarity

In the present study, the possible reversal effects of saffron against established aluminum (Al)-toxicity in adult mice, were investigated. Control, Al-treated (50 mg AlCl(3)/kg/day diluted in the drinking water for 5 weeks) and Al+saffron (Al-treatment as previously plus 60 mg saffron extract/kg/day intraperitoneally for the last 6 days), groups of male Balb-c mice were used. We assessed learn...

2014
Marzieh Mousavi Javad Baharara Khadijeh Shahrokhabadi

BACKGROUND Angiogenesis, which is required for embryonic development and many physiological events, plays crucial role in many pathological conditions such as tumor growth and metastasis. Recent studies indicate anticancer and antitumor properties of saffron against human cancers. Many processes are affected by Electromagnetic Field (EMF) and its effect on proliferation and gene expression were...

2016
Sameera Sastry Panchangam Maryam Vahedi Mohankumar Janardhan Megha Anuj Kumar Kaamini Raithatha Raithatha Suravajhala Pratap Reddy

Saffron is one of the highly exotic spices known for traditional values and antiquity. It is used for home décor besides serving as a colorant flavor and is widely known for medicinal value. Over the last few years, saffron has garnered a lot of interest due to its anti-cancer, anti-mutagenic, anti-oxidant and immunomodulatory properties. Integration of systems biology approaches with wide appl...

Journal: :Molecules 2008
Alper Aytekin Aynur Ozkul Acikgoz

The difficult cultivation of the saffron plant (Crocus Sativus L.) make the spice of the same name made from its dried stigmas very valuable. It is estimated that some 75,000 blossoms or 225,000 hand-picked stigmas are required to make a single pound of saffron, which explains why it is the world's most expensive spice. The aim of this study was to identify ways of increasing the fertility and ...

2009
M. Jahan M. Jahani

The effects of chemical and organic fertilizers on saffron (Crocus sativus) were studied in a field experiment using a complete randomized block design with three replications at ferdowsi university of Mashhad. Fertilizers applied were N, P, K, NP, NK, PK, NPK, cow, sheep and chicken manure. The amount of chemical fertilizer applied were 50, 30, 30, 48, 48, 36, 66 kg/ha for N, P, K, NP, NK, PK,...

Journal: :Iranian journal of biotechnology 2015
Wei-Juan Huang Fei-Fei Li Yu-Jing Liu Chun-Lin Long

BACKGROUND Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) is a common but very expensive herbal medicine. As an important traditional medicine, it has an outstanding effect in treating irregular and painful menstruation. Recently, the over-demand tendency of saffron results in an unusual phenomenon in the medicinal markets. Adulterants and saffron-like substitutes are intentionally mixed into medicinal markets an...

Journal: :Urology journal 2008
Behzad Feizzadeh Jalil Tavakkol Afshari Hassan Rakhshandeh Alireza Rahimi Azam Brook Hassan Doosti

INTRODUCTION Saffron has been suggested to have inhibitory effects on tumoral cells. We evaluated the cytotoxic effect of aqueous extract of saffron on human transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) and mouse non-neoplastic fibroblast cell lines. MATERIALS AND METHODS Human TCC 5637 cell line and mouse fibroblast cell line (L929) were cultivated and incubated with different concentrations of aqueous...

Journal: :Iranian journal of allergy, asthma, and immunology 2007
Abdol-Reza Varasteh Fatemeh Vahedi Mojtaba Sankian Homan Kaghazian Shima Tavallaie Ahmad Abolhassani Tayyebeh Kermani Mahmoud Mahmoudi

Saffron (Zaaferan), botanical name Crocus sativus, is the most expensive spice in the world. It is derived from the dried stigma and pistil of the purple saffron crocus flowers. Iran is the largest saffron producer accounting for more than 80% of the world's production. Saffron contains an aeroallergen that causes reactive respiratory allergic reactions in atopic subjects. IgG antibody to aller...

2014
Toktam Ziaee Bibi Marjan Razavi Hossein Hosseinzadeh

BACKGROUND Saffron and its constituents are widely used around the world as a spice and medicinal plant. Different constituents in medicinal herbs are thought to have the potential to induce useful and/or adverse effects. So, efforts have been made to find the best and most valuable tools to reduce their adverse effects. OBJECTIVES According to Iranian traditional medicine (ITM), it is believ...

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