Background & Aim: Papaver bracteatum Lindl.  (Papaverace) is an important pharmaceutical plant which contains isoqinoline alkaloids. Isoqinoline alkaloids constitute one distinct group of secondary metabolites of the Papaverace family. Codeine and thebaine are important alkaloids of Papaver bracteatum which use widely due to its medicinal properties. Therefore it is...

Original meiotic or both and mitotic chromosome numbers are reported for ten endemic one non species in nine vascular plant families from Iran. The of Acantholimon schahrudicum, A. truncatum, Anthochlamys multinervis, Campanula perpusilla, Cousinia calcitrapa var. interrupta, Dorema ammoniacum, Euphorbia gedrosiaca, Hyocyamus orthocarpus were determined the first time. counts Astrodaucus persic...

From ancient times to the present, plants have been used in many different areas. One of most striking these areas use is alternative medicine. Turkey a country rich both terms location and other favorable conditions. This wealth reveals importance In this context, it very important determine pharmacological properties plants. our study, total antioxidant status (TAS), oxidant (TOS), oxidative ...

Free radical scavenging and cell aggregation inhibitory activities of 36 secondary metabolites isolated from the methanolic extracts of Verbascum cilicicum Boiss., V. lasianthum Boiss. ex Bentham, V pterocalycinum var. mutense Hub.-Mor., and V. salviifolium Boiss. (Scrophulariaceae) were investigated. The isolated compounds, 6-O-vaniloyl ajugol (1), ilwensisaponin A (2), ilwensisaponin C (3), v...

BACKGROUND Since ancient times, various infectious diseases have been treated using herbal drugs. Today, efforts regarding the discovery of the effectual components of plants possessing antimicrobial properties are advanced. Herbal essential oils are widely used for treatment of various diseases, and they play an important role in health care considerations. METHODS The antibacterial activity...

BACKGROUND The Candida species are the most important factors of fungal infections in humans and animals. It is necessary to prepare antifungal or antimicrobial drugs because of increasing drug resistance. The natural treatment of diseases of bacterial origin using medicinal plants is important. In this study the effect of antimicrobial medicinal herbal essential oils and conventional antifunga...

We consider EL, the product-free associative Lambek calculus (Lambek, 1958) extended with a structural modality à la Girard (Girard, 1987), which allows the left strucrural rules (weakening, contraction, and exchange) to be performed in a controlled way. We show that any recursively enumerable language can be described by a categorial grammar based on EL. As an immediate corollary, we get the u...