Damask rose or Rosa damascena Herrm. is one of the most widely-used medicinal herbs in Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM). Because of different types of phytochemicals such as flavonoids, glycosides, terpenes, and anthocyanins, R. damascena flowers have a wide range of pharmacological effects. Five traditional Rosa phytopharmaceuticals are “Golangebin”/ “Golq...

abstract this experiment was conducted to study the effect of south-west climatic conditions on quantitative and qualitative of fatty acids in dog rose (rosa canina l.) seeds collected from five regions including: semirom (isfahan province), kiar and gerdbishe (charmahal and bakhtiari province), yasuj and meymand (kohgiluye and boyer ahmad province). oil was extracted using soxhlet apparatus; t...

A group of 33 mildly hypercholesterolemic men were stratified into three groups on diets closely matched except for the polyunsaturated fatty acid supplement. The first group received 14 g/day of linoleic acid (safflower oil); the second group, 9 g of alpha-linolenic acid (linseed oil); and the third group, 3.8 g of n-3 fatty acids (fish oil). Only fish oil lowered plasma triglycerides (by 24% ...

The present work aimed to improve rose flowering during Winter where most flowers are disappeared and marketing is very profitable. Pruning experiments were carried out on the essential oil yielding hybrid tea rose cultivar (Eiffel tower) at the Floriculture Experimental Farm of Agriculture Faculty, Sohag University, Egypt during two successive years of 2007/2008 and 2008/2009. Four pruning typ...

We studied the Rose Window instability phenomenon on a layer of low conducting liquid (e.g. oil) that is exposed under corona discharge. Most of the current researches focus on deducting qualitative descriptions of this phenomenon in fluid mechanical aspect, but lacks experiments and the study of micro mechanism of the forming of cellular structure. In this thesis, a series of verification expe...

BACKGROUND Through differentiation processes, keratinocytes provide a physical barrier to our bodies and control skin features such as moisturization, wrinkles and pigmentation. Keratinocyte differentiation is disturbed in several skin diseases such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to evaluate the keratinocyte differentiation-enhancing effect of rose abso...

The aim of the present work was to investigate the synergetic effect of microwave and ultrasound treatment on the production, chemical composition and antioxidant activity of rose essential oil. The rose essential oil was extracted from fresh Rosa x damascena Mill. petals by four methods, hydrodistillation, steam distillation, organic solvent extraction and ultrasounds followed by microwave hyd...