The ability of leek to prevent liver damage in rats intoxicated with CCl4 has been demonstrated histopathologically as well as based on enzymatic findings by observing GPT levels in serum. This study was performed to gain an understanding, at least partially, of the hepatoprotective mechanism of leek. A number of rats were divided radomly into three groups of seven animals. The first group, wit…
In order to study the effect of cell defferentiation on its terpenoids content in Curcuma zedoaria plant, GC-MS analysis of the ether extracts from its tissue cultures were performed. The results of the analysis showed that the degree of cell differentiation could influence their terpenoids content. The organ cultures (shoot, roots and plantlet cultures) could produce more terpenoids compared t…
Rhizome of Curcuma heyneana Val van Zyp is much used in traditional medicine and cosmetics. In this work GLC-MS analysis of volatile oil isolated from rhizome was conducted continuing the work performed before. The isolated volatile oil was fractionized in chromatographic colum of biocil a using sequentially hexane, methylene chloride, chloroform than methanol as eluents. The hexane and methy…
Vulage people traditionally use the paper betle extract to treat their all kind of their eye disease. The objective of this studies is to look for the possibility of the active material useful to decrease intra ocular pressure. Those substance were phenylanine, eugenol, and chavicol decrease intra ocular pressure significantly. The other substance arginine, tyrosine, and cathecol didnot here th…
A research has been conducted to determine LD-50 green tea extract on mice strain C3H by Thompson-weil methode. The result is 5.7-11.0 g/kg body weight, thus green tea extract has a low toxicity.
Objective : The objective of this study is to know the effect of extract pare fruit against testosteron concentration. Design/data identification : Randomized block design. Setting : Research Center for Medical Science and Technology and Department of Biology, School of Medicine University of Indonesia, Jakarta. Subject : Twenty four adult male rat. Measurement : Doses and concentration of horm…