Background and objectives: Tuberculosis (TB) is the major public health problem in the world. Each year there are 2-3 million deaths worldwide caused by TB. The increasing incidence of Multi Drug Resistance tuberculosis (MDR-TB) worldwide highlights the urgent need to search for new antituberculosis compounds. It has been reported that medicinal plant, Dracocephalum kotschyi, possesses some ant...

Dracocephlum kotschyi Boiss is a genus in Lamiaceae family and medicinal herb native to Iran. The cell suspension cultures were treated by static magnetic field (SMF) Fe3O4 magnetite nanoparticles (MNP) understand the production yield of secondary metabolites. treatment procedure was done cultivating cells either with 100 ppm MNP, SMFs, or simultaneous exposure both MNP SMFs. SMF at 30 mT unifo...

background & aim: dracocephalum genus belongs to the lamiaceae family which has eight species in iran. dracocephalum kotschyi boiss is an important medicinal and aromatic plant that use in pharmaceutical industry. in addition, this species is used in iranian traditional medicine. the aim of current study was to examine the various growth regulations and explants on direct organogenesis of d...

dracocephalum kotschyi boiss. is a traditional medicine with antispasmodic activities. the objective of this research was to study antispasmodic activities of hydroalcoholic extract of d. kotschyi on rat isolated uterus contractions for comparison with isolated ileum. hydroalcoholic extract was obtained from aerial part of d. kotschyi using percolation method. a portion of rat ileum or uterus w...

The genus Tanacetum is one of the most important medicinal plants that contains 26 species in Iran, 12 of them are endemic. This paper reports the essential oil composition of  Tanacetum angulatum Willd. Tanacetum canacens DC. and Tanacetum pinnatum Boiss. growing wild in Iran. Plant flowers and leaves were collected from different locations of North- West of Iran. Samples were hydro-distilled ...

the essential oils obtained by hydrodistillation (hd), steam distillation (sd) and solvent free microwave extraction (sfme) from the stems and flowers of tanacetum tenuisectum (boiss.) podl., which is endemic to iran,were analyzed by gc and gc/ms.camphor (26.9 %, 27.2% and 25.5%), borneol (12.6%, 11.5% and 7.6%) and 1, 8-cineole (7.9%, 13.2% and 11.3%) were the main constituents of the hd, sd a...