Plant preparations have been used to treat various diseases and discussed for centuries.
Research has advanced to discover and identify the plant components with beneficial effects …

Sumac is the common name for a genus (Rhus) that contains over 250 individual species of
flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae. These plants are found in temperate and …

Human pancreatic cancer cells such as PANC-1 are known to exhibit marked tolerance to
nutrition starvation that enables them to survive for prolonged period of time even under …

The neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory activities of the methanolic extract of Rhus
verniciflua Stokes (Anacardiaceae) were investigated with mouse hippocampal and …

Recent years have witnessed a considerable renewed interest for the uncommon flavonoid
class of aurones. The characterization of two major biosynthetic machineries involved in …

The effect of extracts from leaves of Myrtus communis on the SOS reponse induced by
Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) and Nifuroxazide was investigated in a bacterial assay system, ie the …

We isolated four compounds, fustin, gallic acid, 3′, 4′, 7-trihydroxyflavone, and fisetin from
Rhus verniciflua. These compounds showed electron donation ability (87–94%) that was …

This study evaluates mutagenic and antimutagenic effects of aqueous, total oligomers
flavonoïds (TOF), ethyl acetate and methanol extracts from aerial parts of Cyperus rotundus …

An overview is presented of chromatographic methods currently in use to determine
flavonoids, including free aglycones, their corresponding glycosides, one by one, and, in the …

The fustin plant-derived bioflavonoid obtained from a common plant known as lacquer tree
from family Anacardiaceae, formally known as Rhus verniciflua Stokes, is known to exert a …