: A-1 Presented by: Ileana Arbona-Ramirez, MD, Staff Fetal/placental Immune Regulation: Analysis of FOXP3+ Regulatory T cells in Human Gestation Ileana Arbona-Ramirez, M.D., Rene Ruiz, M.D, Morna J. Dorsey, M.D., M.M.Sc.; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, College of Medicine , University of South Florida

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE In 1962 ethnopharmacologists, Hofmann and Wasson, undertook an expedition to Oaxaca, Mexico. These two researchers were the first scientists to collect a flowering specimen of Salvia divinorum allowing the identification of this species. While the species' traditional use is confined to a very small region of Mexico, since Hofmann and Wasson's expedition 50 years ...

Genus Salvia, commonly known as sage, is the largest genus in the Lamiaceae family. It comprises many species traditionally used as brain-enhancing tonics. In vitro and animal studies have confirmed that several Salvia species contain a large array of active compounds that may enhance cognitive activity and protect against neurodegenerative disease. In this review, the active constituents in pl...

OBJECTIVE To study the effects of Salvia miltiorrhiza on serum levels of cytokines including interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-8 (IL-8) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in patients with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP). METHODS Thirty-six SAP patients were randomly divided into Salvia miltiorrhiza-treated group and non-Salvia miltiorrhiza-treated group with eighteen patients in each...

Salvia divinorum is a hallucinogenic herb that is internationally regulated. In this study, salvinorin A, the active compound in S. divinorum, was extracted from S. divinorum plant leaves using a 5-min extraction with dichloromethane. Four additional Salvia species (Salvia officinalis, Salvia guaranitica, Salvia splendens, and Salvia nemorosa) were extracted using this procedure, and all extrac...

Salinity is a widespread environmental problem limiting productivity and growth of plants. Halophytes which can adapt and resist certain salt stress have various mechanisms to defend the higher salinity and alkalinity, and epigenetic mechanisms especially DNA methylation may play important roles in plant adaptability and plasticity. In this study, we aimed to investigate the different influence...

The aim of this work is to assess the morphological characteristics and parameters of biomass production, such as fresh and dry matter weight (FMW and DMW, g/plant), yield of dry matter (YDM) in terms of ton/ha, essential oil content (EOC, mL/100 g) and yield of essential oils (YEO) expressed as L/ha of the following plants Salvia verbenaca, Salvia argentea, Salvia lavandulifolia, Salvia praten...

To investigate the genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships of Salvia miltiorrhiza and related species, we analyzed the nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region for 7 accessions of Salvia miltiorrhiza and another 23 samples from other taxa within the genus Salvia by maximum parsimony and Bayesian inference analyses. Th ere were 257 variation sites amounting to 40.8...

Japanese species of the genus Netelia of the subgenus Bessobates are revised. Fourteen species are recognized. Four new species, N. (B.) longipad, N. (B.) nigridorsalis, N. (B.) nodai and N. (B.) yakushimensis, are described. Six species, N. (B.) comitor Tolkanitz, 1974, N. (B.) frenata Tolkanitz, 1981, N. (B.) gansuana (Kokujev, 1906), N. (B.) kiuhabona (Uchida, 1928), N. (B.) nanaki Kaur & Jo...

Salvia species are known for their anti-fungal and anti-acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity. Metabolomics is defined as a comprehensive quantitative qualitative analysis of large-scale metabolites. In this study, besides determining synergistic antifungal activities selected (S. cryptantha Montbret & Aucher ex Benth., S. tchihatcheffii (Fisch. C. A. Mey.) Boiss., officinalis L., virgata Ja...