background & aim: the genus tanacetum l. belongs to the family asteraceae and tribe anthemideae. according to the recent findings the number of tanacetum species in iran is 36, of which 12 are endemic. in this study the essential oil composition of tanacetum chiliophyllum var. oligocephalum was investigated for the first time.   experimental: the plant was collected during flowering stage f...

the volatile oil obtained by hydrodistillation of the aerial parts of matricaria chamomilla l. (asteraceae) growing in botanical garden, isfahan university of medical sciences, iran, was investigated by gas chromatography (gc) and gc/ mass spectrometery (ms). sixty-three components were characterized, representing 86.21% of the total oil components detected. α-bisabolol oxide a (25.01%) and a-b...

The fruits contain tannins (2), volatile oil (6, 7), various organic acids (2), anthocyanins (6) and fixed oil (6). Either the whole fruit or only the pericarp is used as a condiment in Turkey and called “Sumak” (2, 9). The composition of the essential oils prepared from the fruit, leaves and branch barks of R. coriaria has been reported on the same Anatolian material (7). The anatomical charac...

the essential oil of stachys lavandulifolia vahl (lamiaceae) was isolated by hydrodistillation of the aerial parts of the plant, with a yield of 0.25%. the chemical composition of volatile oil was analyzed by capillary gc and gc/ ms. the main components were germacrene-d (13.2%), ?-phellandrene (12.7%), ?-pinene (10.2%), myrcene (9.4%), ?-pinene (8.4%) and z-?-ocimene (5.8%).

The aim of this study was to investigate the immunomodulatory effects of the volatile oil of ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) in vitro and in vivo in mice. In vitro, the volatile oil of ginger (0.001-10 ng/mL) significantly inhibited T lymphocyte proliferation (P < 0.01), decreased the number of the total T lymphocytes and T helper cells (P < 0.01) in a concentration-dependent manner, but in...

PURPOSE The study is aimed at finding new antibiotic therapy for aquaculture due to potential of bacteria to develop resistance to the existing therapies. Use of large quantities of synthetic antibiotics in aquaculture thus has the potential to be detrimental to fish health, to the environment and wildlife and to human health. METHODS Antimicrobial potential of volatile oil and fractions of c...

The objective of the present study was to identify chemical constituents of volatile oil from Pyrolae herba (PHVO) and evaluate the antiproliferative activity of PHVO against SW1353 human chondrosarcoma cells. The volatile oil from Pyrolae herba was prepared by hydrodistillation and characterized by gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS). A total of 12 components in PHVO were identified r...

Microwave-assisted extraction of volatile oils (MAE) potentially offers a more efficient and bio-sustainable method than conventional extraction by Clevenger apparatus (CE). This study aimed to optimise the MAE of the volatile oil from Pterodon emarginatus fruits and characterise the volatile compounds. A 2³ full-factorial central composite design and response surface methodology were used to e...

The fatty acid and volatile compound compositions of camellia oil were analyzed in this study. The impacts of the replacement of conventional vegetable oil with camellia oil on the sensory attributes of dried seaweed were also determined. C18:1 (83.59%), followed by C16:0 and C18:2, were the most abundant fatty acids in camellia oil. A total of 11 and 32 volatile compounds were identified in ca...

Trypanocidal activity was found in the volatile oil of the Young leaves of Nepeta cataria L. which has been extracted by diethyl ether and analyzed by GC and GC/MS. Four compounds in the oil of N. cataria, representing 97.53% of the oil were identified. The oil was enriched of monoterpenes with α- citral (51.95%) as the major compound. Other main compounds were β- citronellol (9.03%), geraniol ...