Background: Hydatidosis is a common disease of both humans and animals, resulting from infection with the larvae of Echinococcus granulosus tapeworm. The aim of this study was to investigate the antiparasitic (protoscolicidal) activities of three essential oils in vitro. Methods: This study was designed to evaluate the biochemical composition and in vitro antiparasitic effects of Zataria multi...

       The volatile constituents of aerial parts of Euphorbia aellenii Rech.f. and E. microsciadea Boiss. were analyzed by gas chromatography (GC) and GC-mass spectrometry (MS) methods. The main volatile constituents of E. aellenii were phytol isomer (47.3%), camphene (31.9%) and caryophyllene oxide (20.6%), while the major volatile components of <em...

As part of ongoing research on the chemical composition and the antimicrobial properties of Burkinabe plants essential oils alone and in combination, essential oils (EOs) from leaves of Cymbopogon citratus and Cymbopogon giganteus from Burkina Faso were analyzed by GC-FID and GC-MS. Five constituents, which accounted for 96.3% of the oil, were identified in the EO of C. citratus. Geranial (48.1...

Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium) leaves with small irregular or ellipsoidal necrotic spots were collected in a suburb area of Ardal city, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province Iran summer 2018. A fungal isolate was recovered from diseased tissue identified as Bipolaris sorokiniana based on morphological characteristics partial sequence the gpdh gene. In pathogenicity study, disease symptoms observed i...

Axenic shoot culture of Mentha arvensis was established from young shoots of plants cultivated in a field. In the shoots cultured on Murashige-Skoog solid and liquid media for 3-4 weeks, pulegone was the main constituent in both cases, and the content of pulegone in liquid medium was much more than that on solid medium. The shoots cultured in the dark for 3 weeks produced only pulegone. However...

The characterization of essential oils of Mentha aquatica L grown in two Provinces of Vietnam was performed by means of gas chromatography-flame ionization detector (GC-FID) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) techniques. The major constituents of the essential oils were epi-bicyclosesquiphellandrene (58.9% and 52.4% respectively) and limonene (21.1% and 31.4% respectively) for Tha...

An overview of the studies carried out in our laboratories on supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) of volatile oils from seven aromatic plants: pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium L.), fennel seeds (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.), coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.), savory (Satureja fruticosa Béguinot), winter savory (Satureja montana L.), cotton lavender (Santolina chamaecyparisus) and thyme (Thymus vulgari...

Mentha pulegium (Lamiaceae) tea has been used as a traditional medicine; however, the modulatory effect of M. pulegium extracts on damage to human erythrocytes associated to t-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BHP) exposure remains to be investigated. Accordingly, we perform this study in order to test the hypothesis that aqueous and ethanolic extracts of M. pulegium could modulate the hemolysis associate...