Anthemis species are traditionally used to treat infectious and inflammatory processes, among others clinical disturbances. In the current study, the chemical composition, the total phenolic and flavonoid contents, the ...

Ganoderma species have been used in traditional medicine, particularly for cancer therapy. To evaluate the similarities and the differences between four Ganoderma species, fatty acid constituents of five Ganoderma lucidum, ...

Background: Flavones, are a class of naturally occuring polyphenolic compounds which have 2-phenylchromen-4-one structure. Various studies showed that flavones have several pharmacological activities such as antioxidant, ...

Bile salt hydrolase (BSH) enzyme, commonly found in probiotic bacteria of gut origin, catalyzes the hydrolysis of glycine and/or taurine-conjugated bile salts allowing for colonization of the bacteria in the gut and ...

Traditional formulation therapies based on natural origin compounds offer new alternatives for treatment of skin wounds. Hypericum perforatum (HP), Liquidambar orientalis (LO), and propolis have been proved to promote skin ...

Sideritis leptoclada O. Schwarz et P.H. Davis extracts were evaluated for its singlet oxygen production capacity using spectrophotometric method. The extracts producing singlet oxygen were then evaluated for cytotoxicity ...

Twenty compounds were detected in the essential oil of Rhanterium suaveolens representing 98.01% of the total oil content. Perillaldehyde (45.79%), caryophyllene oxide (24.82%) and -cadinol (5.61%) were identified as the ...

Different extracts of the aerial parts of Biscutella raphanifolia (Brassicaceae), which has not been the subject of any study, were screened for the phytochemical content, anti-microbial, antioxidant and anti-cholinesterase ...

Hydrodistilled essential oil of Mentha spicata L., cultivated at Ghardaïa (Algerian Septentrional Sahara), was analyzed by GC and GC/MS. 29 components representing 96.43% of the essential oil were detected with cis-carvone ...

Over several centuries, natural products being major molecular structural resources have played an important role for discovery of drugs. Aspirin the antipyretic and analgesic drug, taxol the anti-cancer drug, artemisinin ...