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Expression of antioxidant genes in broiler chickens fed nettle (Urtica dioica) and its link with pulmonary hypertension

Animal Nutrition, 2019
Nettle (Urtica dioica) contains a wide range of chemical constituents that confer a strong antioxidant capacity to the plant. The present study was to investigate the antioxidant gene expression and pulmonary hypertensive responses of broiler chickens to
Behnam Ahmadipour, Fariborz Khajali
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Essential and toxic elements intake from botanical extracts: a probabilistic risk–benefit evaluation within the Italian dietary context

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract BACKGROUND Botanical extracts are widely consumed for their claimed health benefits, yet their safety profile with respect to chronic consumption remains poorly characterized. Understanding the potential health risks associated with their inorganic content is a crucial issue for ensuring safe use, along with a characterization of the ...
Giovanni Tommaso Lanza, Maria Olga Varrà, Lenka Husáková, Martina Piroutková, Jan Patočka, Emanuela Zanardi   +5 more
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Identification of phytosterins in Urtica dioica L. (overground part)

Zaporožskij Medicinskij Žurnal, 2017
Long since Urtica dioica L. was used in folk medicine as vitamin and hemostatic agents. Nowadays hypotensive, diuretic, antitumoral effects of medicines obtained from plant based raw materials from Urtica were experimentally proved.
G. P. Smoylovska
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Lead uptake, tolerance, and accumulation exhibited by the plants Urtica dioica and Sedum spectabile in contaminated soil without additives [PDF]

Archives of Biological Sciences, 2008
Specimens of Urtica dioica and Sedum spectabile collected from plants growing at uncontaminated sites were transplanted in Pb-contaminated soil without additives (EDTA, HEDTA) to identify their natural potential for hyper-tolerance and hyperaccumulation ...
Grubor Milena
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Alpine flora of Kashmir Himalaya: floristic assessment, life history traits and threat status

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Alpine ecosystems in the Himalaya are considered to be at a higher risk to anthropogenic global change drivers. The Kashmir Himalaya, located in the north‐western side of the Himalayan biodiversity hotspot, harbors a diverse alpine flora, which remains systematically little investigated.
Bilal A. Rasray, Showkeen A. Lone, Rameez Ahmad, Tajamul Islam, Hitendra Padalia, Anzar Ahmad Khuroo   +5 more
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A comprehensive checklist of Mediterranean wild edible plants: Diversity, traditional uses, and knowledge gaps

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The use of wild edible plants and the traditional knowledge associated with them are rapidly disappearing across the Mediterranean, with serious consequences for biodiversity, cultural heritage, and regional food security. This study compiles and organizes fragmented information to create the first comprehensive catalogue of these plants across the ...
Benedetta Gori, Tiziana Cossu, Hicham El Zein, Udayangani Liu, Tiziana Ulian, Gianluigi Bacchetta   +5 more
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Antioxidant Defense System and Physiological Insights to Drought Stress in Urtica dioica L.

Düzce University Faculty of Forestry Journal of Forestry, 2023
Urtica dioicais an endemic perennial plant of rocky habitat of Western Black Sea region of Turkey. To understand drought responses and tolerance mechanism of Seseli resinosum Freyn & Sint., relative water content (RWC), chlorophyll fluorescence, proline ...
Hülya Torun
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The effect of Urtica dioica extract on the number of astrocytes in the dentate gyrus of diabetic rats [PDF]

, 2009
Diabetes mellitus is associated with cerebral alterations in both human and animal models of the disease. These alterations include abnormal expression of hypothalamic neuropeptides and hippocampal astrogliosis.
Afshar, M., Golalipour, M.J., Jahanshahi, M.   +2 more
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Former land use affects the nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and biomass of forest herbs [PDF]

, 2011
The colonization rates of understorey plants into forests growing on former agricultural land differ remarkably among species. Different dispersal and recruitment largely account for the contrasting colonization rates, but different effects of the soil ...
Baeten, Lander, De Frenne, Pieter, Hermy, Martin, Vanhellemont, Margot, Verheyen, Kris, Verstraeten, Gorik, Wuyts, Karen   +6 more
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To converge or diverge? Phenological shifts driven by plant genome size and functional traits under nitrogen deposition and mowing

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Linkages between genome size (GS) and phenology underscore the diversification of functional traits, which are indicative of life‐history and resource acquisition strategies.
Jing Lü, Ruzhen Wang, Huanhuan Deng, Weiyi Ma, Josep Peñuelas, Haiyang Zhang, Mengjiao Bi, Liangchao Jiang, Jordi Sardans, Xingguo Han, Yong Jiang   +10 more
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