background and objectives:the plants of genus artemisia (asteraceae) have been conventionally used for prevention and medication of a number of ailments. in the present research, ten extracts with different polarities from aerial parts of two artemisia species, a. kopetdaghensis and a. turcomanica were evaluated for their potential anti-malarial properties. methods: the plant materials were ext...

malaria as one of the most recurrent infectious diseases caused by parasites of the genus plasmodium, kills several hundred thousand people especially in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world annually. terpenoids have served as the lead compounds to develop new antimalarial agents. the aromatic monoterpenoid, cuminaldehyde, isolated from the fruits of buniumpersicum was evaluated fo...

Background and objectives:The plants of genus Artemisia (Asteraceae) have been conventionally used for prevention and medication of a number of ailments. In the present research, ten extracts with different polarities from aerial parts of two Artemisia species, A. kopetdaghensis and A. turcomanica were evaluated for their potential anti-malar...

Scrophularia genus belonging to the family of Scrophulariaceae, is a medicinal plant widely distributed in Iran. In the present study,the anti-malarial activity of different extracts of three Iranian endemic species of Scrophularia including S. frigida, S. subaphylla and S. atropatana, was screened by an in-vitro preliminary assay. The plant materials were extracted successively with n-hexane, ...

Scrophularia genus belonging to the family of Scrophulariaceae, is a medicinal plant widely distributed in Iran. In the present study,the anti-malarial activity of different extracts of three Iranian endemic species of Scrophularia including S. frigida, S. subaphylla and S. atropatana, was screened by an in-vitro preliminary assay. The plant materials were extracted successively with n-hexane, ...

Background and objectives: The aerial parts of Artemisia marschalliana Sprengel as an indigenous species of genus Artemisia in the East Azerbaijan province of Iran, was subjected to phytochemical analysis, as well asanti-proliferative, free-radical-scavenging and anti-malarialactivities. Methods: The chemical composition of the essential oil o...

Background: Paenibacillus larvae is the etiological agent of American foulbrood (AFB) disease, the most lethal disease in honeybee (Apis mellifera) larvae. Aims: The aim of the present work was to study the antimicrobial effect of cell free supernatant (CFS) of probiotics on an Iranian isolate’s biofilm formation. Methods: A l...

Leishmania spp. are a medically important group of protozoan parasites that synthesize a novel intracellular carbohydrate reserve polymer termed mannogen. Mannogen is a soluble homopolymer of β-1,2-linked mannose residues that accumulates in the major pathogenic stages in the sandfly vector and mammalian host. While several steps in mannogen biosynthesis have been defined, none of the enzymes h...

conclusions biofilm formation (both strong and weak) strongly correlated with psla gene carriage. biofilm formation also correlated with mbl and ampc β-lactamase production. more importantly, multiple-β-lactamase phenotype was associated with formation of strong biofilms. results biofilm formation was observed in 43.5% of the isolates, of which 66.7% produced strong and 33.3% formed weak biofil...