abstract background: gastric cancer is a life threatening disease. recent studies have shown that rosa damascene possesses noticeable biological effects on the human body. this study, investigates the anticancer effect of rosa damascena on gastric cancer cell line mkn45. methods: microscopic studies and mtt assay were used to examine morphological alteration, and cell survival of the cancer cel...

introduction: in this study, the chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of essential oil of ziziphora clinopodiodes and its potential application as a natural preservative in reducing the indigenous microbial population of hamburger were investigated. method: essential oil of ziziphora clinopodiodes cultivated in iran was obtained by hydro-distillation method (hdm). chemical compositio...

Essential oils on the market were analyzed using GC-MS and the main ingredients of each essential oil were quantified. Analysis of the essential oil of Lavandula officinalis (lavender oil) showed that each sample had a different ratio of the contents of main ingredients, such as linalool, linalyl acetate, and camphor. In addition, some commercial lavender oils were analyzed by GC-MS for compari...

in this study, anti alternaria solani effects of essential oils of 11 medicinal and aromatic plant species belonging to four families collected from the west of iran were investigated based on agar dilution method with five replications at concentration of 1.0 µl/ml. the results showed that the highest inhibitory effect belonged to oliveria decumbens, cinnamomum zeylanicum, carum copticum and t...

throughout the present study, some bacillus spp. were isolated from soil, and the effectiveness of the medicinal plant cuminum cyminum l.’s essential oil extracts were tested against the isolated bacteria. the bacillus spp.were identified through 16s rdna sequence analysis and the antibacterial activity of various organic solvent extracts as well as the essential oils of c. cyminum l. determine...

background & aim: eucalyptus l'her. [an aromatic genera of the family (myrtaceae)] is native to australia and other tropical species is planted worldwide. the purpose of this study is to extract and identify the essential oils components of four species of eucalyptus l'her. cultivated in botanical garden of kashan, central iran. experimental: leaves of e. largiflorens, e. intertexta, ...

abstract       background and objective: the aim of this study was to determine the chemical composition, antibacterial and antifungal effects of thymus vulgaris and cuminum cyminum essential oils against foodborne pathogens and candida species in vitro.       methods: the essential oils were extracted from the aerial parts of thymus vulgaris and dried cuminum cyminum seeds using a clevenger ap...

the chemical composition of the essential oil of fruits of pimpinella haussknechtiiboiss.was studied by gc-ms. after gc-ms analysis, one unknown component (56.7%) was observed, which was not characterized in the gc-ms library. the essential oil of p.hauskenekhtii was injected to hplc using ymc-pak-sil column (250 × 20 mm) with gradient system of hexane (a), and hexane: ethyl acetate, 9:1 (b) to...