introduction: liver plays a pivotal role in glucose and lipid homeostasis. this study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of l. acanthodes hydro-alcoholic extract administration on the liver functional and histological parameters in hyperglycemic rats. methods: twenty-four male wistar rats were randomly allocated into four groups control, hyperglycemic (stz), hyperglycemic + insulin (stz+ins...

The characterization of prospective plants is one the critical issues in efficiency and success phytoremediation process. Due to adaption tolerance different environmental stresses, native plant species have priority this method. This study examined fifty five species, namely Launaea acanthodes, Artemisia sp., Cousinia congesta, Peganum harmala, Stipa growing near a smelter refinery Iran identi...

Bothriocephalidean tapeworms parasitic in the blackfish, Centrolophus niger (Gmelin) (Perciformes: Centrolophidae), are redescribed on the basis of the evaluation of freshly collected specimens and museum material. This evaluation enabled us to supplement species diagnoses by new morphological characters of potential use for phylogenetic analyses, including the data from scanning electron micro...

For the leaf succulent Agave deserti and the stem succulent Ferocactus acanthodes, increasing the ambient CO(2) level from 350 microliters per liter to 650 microliters per liter immediately increased daytime net CO(2) uptake about 30% while leaving nighttime net CO(2) uptake of these Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants approximately unchanged. A similar enhancement of about 30% was found ...