Molecules, Vol. 29, Pages 1673: The Effect of Essential Oils from Asteraceae Plants on Behavior and Selected Physiological Parameters of the Bird Cherry-Oat Aphid
wski
Essential oils (EOs), including those from the Asteraceae plants, have been shown to have promising insecticidal activity against a wide range of insect pests. Understanding the mechanism of action of EOs is one of the studied aspects. The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of essential oils from Achillea millefolium, Santolina chamaecyparissus, Tagetes patula and Tanacetum vulgare on the settling and probing behavior of the bird cherry-oat aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi L.). In addition, the effect of the oils on the activity of such enzymes as trypsin, pepsin and α- and β-glucosidas...
Source: Molecules - April 8, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Pawe ł Czerniewicz Hubert Sytykiewicz Grzegorz Chrzanowski Tags: Article Source Type: research
Gendering innocence: An empirical inquiry into the lived experience of gender incongruence in childhood
This article draws on evidence from interviews with 40 gender and sex variant young people and 30 caregivers of transgender children. Participants' accounts illustrate the deep psychic i nvestment in embodied gender incongruence that young people may manifest from the earliest years of childhood. They highlight the profound distress sometimes experienced by children denied external recognition of their internal (gendered) selves and required to conform to extraneous expectations inf ormed by essentialist understandings of biological sex. Far from ‘innocent’ of gender (difference), children can be deeply and actively in...
Source: Children and Society - April 5, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Elizabeth Yarrow Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Revolutionizing Wound Healing: Unleashing Nanostructured Lipid Carriers Embodied with Herbal Medicinal Plant
Curr Pharm Biotechnol. 2024 Apr 1. doi: 10.2174/0113892010287720240322060706. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWound healing is crucial for maintaining skin integrity and preventing complications from external threats. Various plants, such as Achillea millefolium, Aloe vera, Curcuma longa, Calendula officinalis, Camellia sinensis, Azadirachta indica, and Plantago, have demonstrated wound healing capabilities and have been used in herbal medicine for wound care. NLCs are second-generation lipid nanoparticles, blending solid and liquid lipids to improve medication loading and limit leakage. NLCs have been used in various applic...
Source: Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology - April 3, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Aditya Jain Shikha Yadav Javed Khan Source Type: research
Revolutionizing Wound Healing: Unleashing Nanostructured Lipid Carriers Embodied with Herbal Medicinal Plant
Curr Pharm Biotechnol. 2024 Apr 1. doi: 10.2174/0113892010287720240322060706. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWound healing is crucial for maintaining skin integrity and preventing complications from external threats. Various plants, such as Achillea millefolium, Aloe vera, Curcuma longa, Calendula officinalis, Camellia sinensis, Azadirachta indica, and Plantago, have demonstrated wound healing capabilities and have been used in herbal medicine for wound care. NLCs are second-generation lipid nanoparticles, blending solid and liquid lipids to improve medication loading and limit leakage. NLCs have been used in various applic...
Source: Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology - April 3, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Aditya Jain Shikha Yadav Javed Khan Source Type: research
HPLC analysis, genotoxic and antioxidant potential of Achillea millefolium L. and Chaerophyllum villosum Wall ex. Dc
Methanolic and chloroformic extract of Achillea millefolium and Chaerophyllum villosum were evaluated for HPLC analysis, genotoxic and antioxidant potential. (Source: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine)
Source: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine - February 16, 2024 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Muhammad Adil, Ghulam Dastagir, Atifa Quddoos, Muhammad Naseer and Faten Zubair Filimban Tags: Research Source Type: research
The anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic effects of Achillea millefolium L. extracts on Clostridioides difficile ribotype 001 in human intestinal epithelial cells
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is one of the most common health care-acquired infections. The dramatic increase in antimicrobial resistance of C. difficile isolates has led to growing demand to seek new... (Source: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine)
Source: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine - January 13, 2024 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Hamideh Raeisi, Masoumeh Azimirad, Samaneh Asadi-Sanam, Hamid Asadzadeh Aghdaei, Abbas Yadegar and Mohammad Reza Zali Tags: Research Source Type: research
Potential of herbaceous plant species for copper (Cu) accumulation
We examined the efficiency of Cu shoot accumulation by herbaceous plants in Cu-contaminated and non-contaminated soils in Trhové Dusniky and Podles, respectively, in the Czech Republic. The total soil Cu content of 81 mg kg-1 in Trhové Dusniky indicated a slight contamination level compared to 50 mg kg-1, the permissible value by WHO, and < 35 in Podlesí, representing a clean environment. The Cu content was above the permissible value in plants (10 mg kg-1 by WHO) in herbaceous speciesat the control site without trees: Stachys palustris L. (10.8 mg kg-1), Cirsium arvense L. (11.3 mg kg-1), Achillea millefolium L. (12...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - December 19, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Michael O Asare Elisa Pellegrini Ji řina Száková Jana Najmanov á Pavel Tlusto š Maria de Nobili Marco Contin Source Type: research
Molecules, Vol. 28, Pages 7791: Herb and Flowers of Achillea millefolium subsp. millefolium L.: Structure and Histochemistry of Secretory Tissues and Phytochemistry of Essential Oils
Gorzel
Achillea millefolium L. herb and flowers have high biological activity; hence, they are used in medicine and cosmetics. The aim of this study was to perform morpho-anatomical analyses of the raw material, including secretory tissues, histochemical assays of the location of lipophilic compounds, and quantitative and qualitative analysis of essential oil (EO). Light and scanning electron microscopy techniques were used to analyse plant structures. The qualitative analyses of EO were carried out using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The results of this study showed the presence of exogenous secretory...
Source: Molecules - November 27, 2023 Category: Chemistry Authors: Agata Konarska El żbieta Weryszko-Chmielewska Aneta Sulborska-R óżycka Anna Kie łtyka-Dadasiewicz Marta Dmitruk Ma łgorzata Gorzel Tags: Article Source Type: research
Historic dam removal poses challenge of restoring both river and landscape
Standing on an outcrop of volcanic rock, Joshua Chenoweth looks across the languid waters of California’s Iron Gate Reservoir and imagines the transformation in store for the landscape. In early 2024, operators will open the floodgates on the 49-meter-high dam that blocks the Klamath River, allowing the more than 50 million tons of water it impounds to begin to drain. Once it’s gone, heavy equipment will dismantle the structure. All that will remain of the 11-kilometer-long reservoir that filled the valley for 60 years will be steep-sided slopes coated in gray mud, split once again by a free-flowing river.
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Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - October 19, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Antimicrobial and anti-aflatoxigenic activities of nanoemulsions based on Achillea millefolium and Crocus sativus flower extracts as green promising agents for food preservatives
Although the mechanism of action of nanoemulsion is still unclear, the modern use of nanoemulsions made from natural extracts as antimicrobial and anti-aflatoxigenic agents represents a potential food preserva... (Source: BMC Microbiology)
Source: BMC Microbiology - October 7, 2023 Category: Microbiology Authors: Feriala A. Abu Safe, Ahmed N. Badr, Mohamed G. Shehata and Gharieb S. El-Sayyad Tags: Research Source Type: research
Aquatic plant wax hydrogen and carbon isotopes in Greenland lakes record shifts in methane cycling during past Holocene warming
Sci Adv. 2023 Sep 29;9(39):eadh9704. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh9704. Epub 2023 Sep 29.ABSTRACTPredicting changes to methane cycling in Arctic lakes is of global concern in a warming world but records constraining lake methane dynamics with past warming are rare. Here, we demonstrate that the hydrogen isotopic composition (δ2H) of mid-chain waxes derived from aquatic moss clearly decouples from precipitation during past Holocene warmth and instead records incorporation of methane in plant biomass. Trends in δ2Hmoss and δ13Cmoss values point to widespread Middle Holocene (11,700 to 4200 years ago) shifts in lake methane cycl...
Source: Adv Data - September 29, 2023 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Jamie M McFarlin Yarrow Axford Stephanie Kusch Andrew L Masterson G Everett Lasher Magdalena R Osburn Source Type: research
Phytotoxicity of weathered petroleum hydrocarbons in soil to boreal plant species
This study indicates that natural weathering of Fraction 2- and Fraction 3-concentrated soil did not eliminate phytotoxicity to boreal plant species. Furthermore, it builds on the limited existing literature for toxicity of PHCs on boreal plants and supports site remediation to existing Canadian provincial PHC guidelines.PMID:37717802 | DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2023.117136 (Source: Environmental Research)
Source: Environmental Research - September 17, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Prama Roy Allison Rutter Amy Gainer Elizabeth Haack Barbara A Zeeb Source Type: research
Identifying social partners through indirect prosociality: A computational account
Cognition. 2023 Aug 10;240:105580. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105580. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe ability to identify people who are prosocial, supportive, and mindful of others is critical for choosing social partners. While past work has emphasized the information value of direct social interactions (such as watching someone help or hinder others), social tendencies can also be inferred from indirect evidence, such as how an agent considers others when making personal choices. Here we present a computational model of this capacity, grounded in a Bayesian framework for action understanding. Across four experiment...
Source: Cognition - August 12, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Isaac Davis Ryan W Carlson Julian Jara-Ettinger Yarrow Dunham Source Type: research
Same people, different group: Social structures are a central component of group concepts
Cognition. 2023 Aug 3;240:105567. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105567. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe examine whether people conceptualize organized groups as having at least two parts: In addition to members (e.g., Alice), they also have social structures (i.e., roles and relations). If groups have members and social structures, then numerically distinct groups can have the same members if they differ in their structures. In Studies 1-4, participants numerically distinguished groups that had the same members when they had different structures. Participants numerically distinguished even when groups had the same functio...
Source: Cognition - August 5, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Alexander Noyes Frank C Keil Yarrow Dunham Katherine Ritchie Source Type: research
Same people, different group: Social structures are a central component of group concepts
Cognition. 2023 Aug 3;240:105567. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105567. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe examine whether people conceptualize organized groups as having at least two parts: In addition to members (e.g., Alice), they also have social structures (i.e., roles and relations). If groups have members and social structures, then numerically distinct groups can have the same members if they differ in their structures. In Studies 1-4, participants numerically distinguished groups that had the same members when they had different structures. Participants numerically distinguished even when groups had the same functio...
Source: Cognition - August 5, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Alexander Noyes Frank C Keil Yarrow Dunham Katherine Ritchie Source Type: research
