SUSCEPTIBILITY OF ORAL CANDIDA SPP. REFERENCE STRAINS AND CLINICAL ISOLATES TO SELECTED ESSENTIAL OILS OF APIACEAE SPECIES
The aim of this study was to investigate the chemical composition and antifungal activity of four essential oils from Apiaceae family, Pastinaca sativa, Foeniculum vulgare, Pimpinella anisum and Anethum graveolens, against Candida spp. reference strains and clinical isolates from human oral cavities. Chemical analysis of the essential oils (GCFID a...
By Miloš Nikolić, Tatjana Marković, Ana Ćirić, Jasmina Glamočlija, Dejan Marković, Marina Soković
IN VITRO ANTIFUNGAL POTENTIAL OF BACILLUS SPP. ISOLATES AS BIOCONTROL AGENTS
Plant diseases caused by infection with pathogenic fungi can lead to the reduction in the capacity of plant growth or can cause far more serious damage, leading to the death of plants and significant losses in food production. Numerous recent studies are devoted to the investigation of bacteria from genus Bacillus as producers of secondary metaboli...
By Ivica Dikić, Tatjana Stević, Tanja Berić, Ivan Nikolić, Tamara Janakiev, Đorđe Fira, Slaviša Stanković
A REWIEW OF PHARMACOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF ANISE (PIMPINELLA ANISUM L.)
Anise (Pimpinella anisum L.) is an annual plant that belongs to the Apiaceae family. It is grown for fruit (Anisi fructus), containing 2-3% essential oil (Anisi aethroleum) with trans-anethole which is a dominant compound and has a characteristic sweet taste and smell. Anise is used in folk medicine in many countries for treatment of digestive, res...
By Milica Aćimović, Nevena Dojčinović
HERBS AND NATURAL PRODUCTS IN PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF MIGRAINE
Migraine headaches are extremely common and it is considered that, on average, one of ten people suffer from migraine. The pathogenesis of migraine is not fully understood. There are two theories, vascular and neurogenic. The treatment of migraine involves the prevention and treatment of acute attacks. Preventive therapy is recommended when migrain...
By Milan Ilić
EXPERIMENTAL METHODS APPLICABLE IN CULTIVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS
This work summarizes the most commonly used methods of research of weed species in medicinal herbs. The choice of method depends on the type of research that we want to conduct. The methods relating to weed herbs are described in detail for the methods of examination of the weeds’ seed germination, methods for the determination of reserves of...
By Ana Matković, Sava Vrbničanin, Tatjana Marković, Dragana Božić
MEDICINAL POTENTIAL OF CUCURBITA POLYSACCHARIDES
Pumpkin has been used frequently as functional food or medicine. In recent years due to numerous pharmacological effects, pumpkin polysaccahrides attract increased attention from researchers. Different investigations showed their antidiabetic, antioxidant, hypolipidemic, antibacterial and antitussive effect. Since most of the studies with pumpkin p...
By Jelena Živković, Katarina Šavikin, Gordana Zdunić, Teodora Janković
IN VITRO PRODUCTION OF CHLOROGENIC ACID IN CULTURE OF TRANSFORMED CICHORIUM INTYBUS L. PLANTS
Chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) is traditionally recognized for its anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, anticancer and nutritive properties. Among active secondary metabolites detected in chicory, the most important are sesquiterpene lactones and phenolics, including chlorogenic acid (CA). Hereby we have analyzed the content of CA in previously obtain...
By Milica Bogdanović, Milan Dragićević, Angelina Subotić, Ana Simonović, Slađana Todorović
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND INHIBITORY ACTIVITY OF SELECTED ESSENTIAL OILS AGAINST FUNGI ISOLATED FROM MEDICINAL PLANTS
In recent years great attention was paid to biological control, the application of natural products in order to protect crops and medicinal plants against contamination with phytopathogenic and saprophytic fungi. Essential oils have been evaluated as a potentially safe replacement for chemicals used for that purpose. In this regard, antifungal pote...
By Tatjana Stević, Slaviša Stanković, Katarina Šavikin, Dejan Gođevac, Ivica Dimkić, Marina Soković
ORIGANUM HERACLEOTICUM L. AND ORIGANUM VULGARE L. SEEDS GERMINATION STIMULATORS
This paper studies the effect of gibberellic acid (GA3), herbal preparation (LAB1) and the pre-cooling treatment (Ph) on seed germination of Origanum heracleoticum L. and Origanum vulgare L. As a control variant, seed treatment with distilled water was used. The highest germination energy (EK), germination after 14 days (14D) and total germination ...
By Vladimir Filipović, Vera Popović, Milica Aćimović, Tatjana Marković, Rade Protić
EXTRACTION OF HERBAL DRUGS: COMPRATIVE EXTRACTION OF CIRCULAR AND EXTRACTION WITH SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE
The most commonly used methods of isolation and concentration of certain constituents from herbal drugs with selected solvents are maceration, doubled maceration, digestion, turboextraction, percolation, repercolation, ultrasonic-assisted extraction and counter-current extraction. According to their consistency, extracts can be classified as liquid...
By Ljiljana Savić