Due to health concerns associated with the increase of antimicrobial resistance in foodborne pathogens such as Salmonella, plant extracts have become important natural alternatives known antimicrobials. The eradication effect water-soluble stinging nettle 2 mg/mL, 4 6 8 12 16 and 20 mg/mL concentrations, on pre-formed biofilms swimming motility Salmonella enterica subspecies serovars, including...

Male and female flowering plants of the dioecious Urtica dioica occur in approximately equal numbers in our study area on the coastal sand dunes of Meijendel. The seed sex ratio (SSR, fraction of males) collected from female plants in the field varied between 0.05 and 0.76, and differed significantly between maternal parents. After one generation of selection for either high or low SSR, female ...

Milk-based kombucha beverages were obtained conducting lead fermentation of milk. In order to discriminate the analysed samples and detect similarities or dissimilarities among them in space experimentally determined variables, hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) principal component (PCA) applied. Linear discriminant (LDA) was conducted on raw data set find a rule for allocating new sample unkn...

Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica L.,) is a medicinal herb commonly used by humans. The role of reactive oxygen metabolites on cancer etiology is known. There are some studies about the antioxidant effects of Urtica Dioica (UD) on therapy of some cancer types. This study aimed to investigate the effects of UD on antioxidant enzyme activities and mammary gland cancer induced by in rats-N-methyl-N-n...