| bioactivity of certain egyptian ficus species. | the fruit extracts of ficus sycomorus l., f. benjamina l., f. bengalensis l. and f. religiosa l. were screened for bioactivity. f. bengalensis and f. religiosa demonstrated activity in the brine shrimp test (artemia salina) which indicates toxicity, whereas f. sycomorus and f. benjamina showed no activity. all the fruit extracts exhibited antitumor activity in the potato disc bioassay. none of the tested extracts showed any marked inhibition on the uptake of calcium into rat pituitary cells gh4c ... | 1994 | 8170162 |
| food-related behaviors during drought: a study of rural fulani, northeastern nigeria. | two rural settled fulani villages in northeast nigeria were surveyed for dietary practices and use of edible wild plants (n = 100 adult subjects). dietary patterns and medical data were obtained for children under 5, pregnant and lactating women and the elderly. a diversified diet was maintained at both geographical locations through hunting, gathering, agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, food exchanges and cash purchases. edible wild plants associated with children included fruits of b ... | 2000 | 10953753 |
| ethnobotanical survey and in vitro antiplasmodial activity of plants used in traditional medicine in burkina faso. | in burkina faso, most people in particular, in rural areas, use traditional medicine and medicinal plants to treat usual diseases. in the course of new antimalarial compounds, an ethnobotanical survey has been conducted in different regions. seven plants, often cited by traditional practitioners and not chemically investigated, have been selected for an antiplasmodial screening: pavetta crassipes (k. schum), acanthospermum hispidum (dc), terminalia macroptera (guill. et perr), cassia siamea (lam ... | 2003 | 12738078 |
| phytochemical screening and effect of aqueous extract of ficus sycomorus l. (moraceae) stembark on muscular activity in laboratory animals. | the stembark of ficus sycomorus was collected, dried and extracted, to screen for some chemical constituents and study its effect on muscle contraction. the duodena and recti abdominis of 10 guinea pigs weighing between 330 and 345 g and 10 frogs weighing between 180 and 201 g, respectively, were isolated and used for this study. the extract was tested to see its effect on acetylcholine (ach) induced contraction on kymograph. the extract reduced the acetylcholine contractile responses of guinea ... | 2006 | 16243463 |
| phytochemical screening and effect of aqueous extract of ficus sycomorus l. (moraceae) stem bark on muscular activity in laboratory animals. | the stembark of ficus sycomorus was collected, dried and extracted to screen for some chemical constituents and study its effect on muscle contraction. the duodena and recti abdominis of 10 guinea pigs weighing between 330 and 34 g and 10 frogs weighing between 180 and 201 g, respectively were isolated and used for this study. the extract was tested to see its effect on acetylcholine-induced contraction on kymograph. the extract reduced the acetylcholine contractile responses of guinea pigs duod ... | 2006 | 16448793 |
| polyphenol content and antioxidant activity of fourteen wild edible fruits from burkina faso. | a total of fourteen (14) species of wild edible fruits from burkina faso were analyzed for their phenolic and flavonoid contents, and their antioxidant activities using the dpph, frap and abts methods. the data obtained show that the total phenolic and total flavonoid levels were significantly higher in the acetone than in the methanol extracts.detarium microcarpum fruit had the highest phenolic and the highest flavonoid content,followed by that of adansonia digitata, ziziphus mauritiana, ximeni ... | 2008 | 18463567 |
| screening of some tanzanian medicinal plants from bunda district for antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activities. | extracts from 50 plant parts obtained from 39 different plants belonging to 22 families used to treat infectious diseases in bunda district, tanzania, were screened against twelve microorganisms, including the bacteria bacillus cereus, staphylococcus aureus, escherichia coli, pseudomonas aeruginosa, klebsiella pneumoniae and salmonella typhimurium, the fungi aspergillus niger, candida albicans, and the viruses herpes simplex virus type 1, vesicular stomatitis virus t2, coxsackie b2 and semliki f ... | 2008 | 18582554 |
| wind-borne insects mediate directional pollen transfer between desert fig trees 160 kilometers apart. | the question of how far pollen can move between plants has implications for topics as diverse as habitat fragmentation, conservation management, and the containment of genetically modified crops. the monoecious african fig tree ficus sycomorus l. relies on the small, short-lived, night-flying, host-specific fig wasp ceratosolen arabicus mayr for pollination. we used microsatellite markers to characterize a geographically isolated riparian population of f. sycomorus growing along the ugab river i ... | 2009 | 19910534 |
| anti-diarrheal activity of the leaf extracts of daniellia oliveri hutch and dalz (fabaceae) and ficus sycomorus miq (moraceae). | the leaves of the plants daniellia oliveri (fabaceae) and ficus sycomorus (moraceae) used in diarrhea treatment in hausa ethnomedicine of northern nigeria were investigated. the study was carried out on perfused isolated rabbit jejunum and castor oil-induced diarrhea in mice. the n-butanol extracts: nbd and nbf (0.16-3.2 mg/ml) caused a dose-dependent relaxation of isolated rabbit jejunum. the acute toxicity test for nbd and nbt in mice established an i.p ld(50) of > 4000 mg/kg for d. oliveri an ... | 2007 | 20161921 |
| effect of ficus sycomorus and azadirachta indica extracts on liver state of mice infected with schistosoma mansoni. | the potential role of hepatoprotective and antipathological effect of ficus sycomorus and azadirachta indica extracts was evaluated for scavenging the reactive oxygen species (ros) and reduced the oxidative damage and pathological changes in the liver of s. mansoni infected mice. the levels of alanine aminotransferase (alt), asparate aminotransferase (ast) and gamma glutamyl transferase (ggt) were evaluated in the infected mice and treated orally with each plant extract 12 weeks post infection ( ... | 2011 | 21634244 |
| antifungal effects of ficus sycomorus and pergularia tomentosa aqueous extracts on some organs in bufo regularis treated with aspergillus niger. | the antifungal efficacy of ficus sycomorus and pergularia tomentosa plant extracts on bufo regularis experimentally infected with aspergillus niger was studied. after an oral administration of the pathogen for 15 days, the blood, kidney and liver were examined. treatment with a. niger produced a reduction in red blood count cells and hemoglobin content. also, both livers and kidneys revealed marked destruction and degenerative changes. these changes included congestion of blood vessels, leukocyt ... | 2011 | 21996552 |
| efficacy of caltropis procera and ficus sycomorus extracts in treating mrsa (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus)-keratitis in rabbit. | mrsa-induced keratitis in rabbit was used to evaluate the therapeutic effect of f. sycomorus leaves and c. procera latex extracts. within the 6 rabbit groups tested, group 1 received sterilized saline, while other groups (2 to 6) received 100 μl of intrastromal injections of 1.5×10(3) colony forming unit (cfu) ml(-1) of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa). after 12 hours, groups 3 to 6 also received chloramphenicol, aqueous extract of c. procera latex, aqueous and alcoholic extrac ... | 2015 | 26648824 |
| ethnobotanical study of plants used in the management of hiv/aids-related diseases in livingstone, southern province, zambia. | faced with critical shortages of staff, long queues, and stigma at public health facilities in livingstone, zambia, persons who suffer from hiv/aids-related diseases use medicinal plants to manage skin infections, diarrhoea, sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, cough, malaria, and oral infections. in all, 94 medicinal plant species were used to manage hiv/aids-related diseases. most remedies are prepared from plants of various families such as combretaceae, euphorbiaceae, fabaceae, and ... | 2016 | 27069489 |
| study of antisickling and vasorelaxant activities and acute toxicity assessment of crude extracts of leaves of ficus sycomorus l. (moraceae). | the leaves of ficus sycomorus are used in burkina faso folk medicine for the treatment of sickle cell disease. the present comparative study of crude extracts of leaves (decoction, macerated extract and a 95% ethanol extract) was performed with the aim to assess the efficiency of this traditional use and to determine the most active of the three extracts. antisickling activity was assessed by the emmel's test. vasorelaxant effect on rat aortic rings precontracted by phenylephrine with and withou ... | 2014 | 26035956 |
| autoinhibition of ethylene formation in nonripening stages of the fruit of sycomore fig (ficus sycomorus l.). | differences in the mechanism of ethylene emanation of ficus sycomorus l. during various stages of the fruit development were investigated by enclosing the figs in jars. two distinct patterns of ethylene emanation were found. pattern a. in stages not capable of ripening, neither spontaneously nor as a result of physiological treatment (nonripening stages a and c), ethylene concentration in the jar increased linearly for a short time and then remained constant. pattern b. in stages capable of ripe ... | 1976 | 16659544 |
| relationship between ethylene and the growth of ficus sycomorus. | the relationship between ethylene and growth was investigated in ficus sycomorus l. a marked increase in ethylene emanation preceeded all the phases of rapid growth and ripening of the syconium.gashing of fig during the 16th to 22nd day of syconium development induced a 50-fold increase in the rate of ethylene emanation within the 1st hour, and a 2- to 3-fold increase in diameter and weight, followed by ripening within 3 days. application of ethylene, ethephon, and auxins caused the same effects ... | 1972 | 16658178 |