Hedera helix L. is known for its therapeutic properties, such as analgesic, anti-inflammatory, expectorant activity. It is currently known that the characteristic therapeutic effects of ivy extracts are induced by phytocompunds, such as: saponins (he...
The aim of this study was to establish the best ultrasound assisted extraction (UAE) conditions of saponins from Hedera helix L. leaves and to evaluate the in vitro biocompatibility of the extracts richest in saponins. Different parameters, such as e...
(1) Background: Hedera nepalensis (Araliaceae) is a recognized medicinal plant founded in Asia that has been reported to work in antioxidant, antifungal, antimicrobial, and antitumor capacities. (2) Methods: The subcritical fluid extraction of saponi...
This paper analyzes the impact of saponins from English ivy leaves on the properties of environmental bacterial strains and hydrocarbon degradation ability. For this purpose, two bacterial strains, Raoultella ornitinolytica M03 and Acinetobacter calc...
Green retaining walls are among the nature-based solutions that can contribute to climate change mitigation by increasing carbon storage capacity in urban areas. This study aimed to determine the aboveground biomass, aboveground carbon stock, and CO2...
The prevalence of obesity is increasing globally, with approximately 700 million obese people worldwide. Currently, regulating energy homeostasis by increasing energy expenditure is attracting attention as a strategy for treating obesity. White adipo...
Giardiasis, caused by Giardia duodenalis, is a common gastrointestinal infection. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of Hedera helix leaf extract (HLE) and HLE-loaded chitosan nanoparticles (HLE-CsNPs) against Giardia duodenalis isolates from i...
Hedera helix L. leaf extracts are regulated expectorants for productive cough, yet their evidence is dispersed across pharmaceutical quality, nonclinical pharmacology, disposition, toxicology, clinical pharmacology, efficacy, safety, and regulatory a...
Bee pollen, known as a ‘life-giving dust’, is a product of honeybees using flower pollen grains and combining them with their saliva secretions. Thus, flower pollen could be an indicator of the bee pollen botanical source. Identification...
The extract of Hedera helix L. (Araliaceae), a well-known folk medicine, has been popularly used to treat respiratory problems, worldwide. It is very likely that this herbal extract is taken in combination with conventional drugs. The present study a...
Hedera helix is a traditional medicinal plant. Its primary active ingredients are oleanane-type saponins, which have extensive pharmacological effects such as gastric mucosal protection, autophagy regulation actions, and antiviral properties. However...
Background/Objectives: Cork oak forests have been declining due to fungal pathogens such as Diplodia corticola. However, the preventive fungicides against this fungus have restricted use due to the deleterious effects on human health and the environm...
Triterpenoid saponins are important secondary metabolites in plants. Abscisic acid (ABA), as one of the indispensable regulatory hormones in plants, promotes the accumulation of bioactive components in various plants, including triterpenoid saponins;...
Flavonoids are key bioactive compounds in plants that play important defense roles against abiotic stress and are involved in plant growth and development. Methyl jasmonate (MeJA) is a significant growth regulator that promotes the accumulation of fl...
Laryngopharyngeal reflux disease (LPRD) is a prevalent upper airway disorder characterized by inflammation and epithelial damage due to the backflow of gastric contents. Current treatments, primarily proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), often show variable...
Hedera helix (HE) contains diverse bioactive constituents, including triterpenoid saponins, flavonoids, and phenolic acids, which exhibit various pharmacological activities. In this study, ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) combined with natural de...
Green façades in the urban environment represent points of biodiversity value, contributing to species conservation, acting as urban wildlife corridors connecting elements, and also aiming at sustainability, when the materials and structure ar...
Hedera helix L. contains phytochemicals with good biological properties which are beneficial to human health and can be used to protect plants against different diseases. The aim of this research was to find the most suitable extraction method and th...
Green façades are acknowledged as passive strategies that reduce heat accumulation, enhance biodiversity, improve particulate matter absorption and provide psycho-physiological benefits for users. However, evaluations of their thermal performa...
In both developed and developing countries, atmospheric pollution with particulate matter (PM) remains an important issue. Despite the health effects of poor air quality, studies on air pollution are often limited by the high costs of continuous moni...
Nectar composition varies across plant species and environments, influencing pollinator interactions and honey quality. Reliable methods for nectar discrimination, however, remain limited. Here, we demonstrate the use of Fourier-transform infrared (F...
Infection with Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke) causes fasciolosis (or fascioliasis) and poses a considerable economic as well as welfare burden to both the agricultural and animal health sectors. Here, we explore the ex vivo anthelmintic potential of...
Ambient air pollution exerts deleterious effects on our environment. Continuously exposed to the atmosphere, diverse communities of microorganisms thrive on leaf surfaces, the phylloplane. The composition of these communities is dynamic, responding t...
Heat transfer through building envelopes is a crucial aspect of energy efficiency in construction. Masonry walls, being a commonly used building material, have a significant impact on thermal performance. In recent years, green roofs and walls have g...
Background: The use of plant-derived agents is a common approach in integrative care for respiratory conditions. However, the evidence of clinical trials has not yet been comprehensively presented. Aim: To summarize the antibacterial, antiviral, immu...
Particulate matter (PM) is a serious threat to human health, climate, and ecosystems. Furthermore, owing to the combined influence of indoor and outdoor particles, indoor PM can pose a greater threat than urban PM. Plants can help to reduce PM pollut...
Reducing inappropriate antibiotic (AB) use by using effective non-antibiotic treatments is one strategy to prevent and reduce antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Andrographis paniculata (Burm. f.) Wall. ex Nees, Pelargonium sidoides DC., Echinacea specie...
Background: Cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation (CAA-RI) is a rare subtype of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), which presents mostly as a subacute and reversible encephalopathy. Primary symptoms include behavioral changes and cognitive...
Introduction: Dystonia can present in primary and secondary forms, depending on co-occurring symptoms and syndromic associations. In contrast to primary dystonia, secondary forms of dystonia are often associated with lesions in the putamen or globus...
SRX246 is a vasopressin (AVP) 1a receptor antagonist that crosses the blood-brain barrier. It reduced impulsive aggression, fear, depression and anxiety in animal models, blocked the actions of intranasal AVP on aggression/fear circuits in an experim...
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is one of the most genetically heterogeneous neurological disorders. HSP is classified as pure when only a spastic weakness of the lower extremities is present. Complex HSP comes with additional neurological or sys...
PARK2 mutations are the most common cause of early-onset Parkinson’s disease. No genotype-phenotype correlation exists, and phenotypic variability is quite common. We report two siblings with confirmed identical compound heterozygous mutations in the...
Background/Objectives: Ivy leaf extract has been shown to alleviate bronchial infection symptoms through various mechanisms, including anti-inflammatory effects. However, its impact on adaptive immunity, particularly dendritic cell (DC)/T-cell intera...
Urban parks and gardens are important in multiple ways, but they are often mostly made of exotic species with little biodiversity value. Surveys conducted in public and private gardens and parks across diverse Portuguese cities reveal a surprisingly...
Elevated particulate matter (PM) concentrations pose severe health risks, necessitating green infrastructure mitigation. While deposition is well documented, wind-induced remobilization remains insufficiently quantified. This study establishes a size...
The concentration of benzene in indoor air has received appreciable attention due to its adverse health effects. Although phytoremediation has been considered as an eco-friendly method to remove benzene, it is unclear how to select plants with a high...
Aphids (Hemiptera, Aphididae) are small phytophagous insects. The aim of this study was to determine if the mariner elements found in the ant genomes are also present in Aphis fabae and Aphis hederae genomes and the possible existence of horizontal t...
Nowadays, reducing energy consumption and obtaining thermal comfort are significant for making educational buildings more climate resilient, more sustainable, and more comfortable. To achieve these goals, a sustainable passive method is that of apply...
Airborne particulate matter (PM) poses a major health risk, yet species selection for vertical greening systems (VGS) is poorly quantified. We evaluated PM retention by seven commercially available shade-tolerant species grown in a modular living wal...
Biogenic nanoparticles are considered effective alternatives to chemical pesticides for the management of pathogenic plant diseases. This study was focused on the synthesis of stable silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) to control challenging plant pathogeni...
Ferroverdins are ferrous iron (Fe2+)-nitrosophenolato complexes produced by a few Streptomyces species as a response to iron overload. Previously, three ferroverdins were identified: ferroverdin A, in which three molecules of p-vinylphenyl-3-nitroso-...
Autonomous vehicles have attracted considerable attention from researchers and organizations, with artificial intelligence (AI) playing a key role in this technology. For AI models in autonomous vehicles to be reliable, the integrity of the training...
Strain prioritization for drug discovery aims at excluding redundant strains of a collection in order to limit the repetitive identification of the same molecules. In this work, we wanted to estimate what can be unexploited in terms of the amount, di...
Long flow detection and load balancing are crucial techniques for data center running and management. However, both of them have been independently studied in previous studies. In this paper, we propose a complete solution called Sonum, which can com...
Vespa velutina is an invasive species that exhibits flexible social behavior, which may have contributed to its introduction in several European countries. It is important to understand its behavior in order to combat the effects of its introduction...
Bioactive natural products are typically secreted by the producer strain. Besides that, this allows the targeting of competitors, also filling a protective role, reducing the chance of self-killing. Surprisingly, DNA-degrading and membrane damaging p...
This study was executed to determine the plant species of herbaceous cover in a skid road subjected to soil compaction due to timber skidding in a beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky.) stand. Our previous studies have shown that ground based timber skiddi...
Biscogniauxia rosacearum, recognized for the first time as a pathogen involved in grapevine trunk diseases in Paveh (west of Iran) vineyards, produced meso-2,3-butanediol (1) as the only phytotoxin. Nectriapyrone (2), (3R)-5-methylmellein (3), (3R)-5...
The urgent need to mitigate climate change has elevated green hydrogen as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, while green cryptocurrencies have emerged to address the environmental concerns of traditional cryptocurrency mining. This study inve...
The last native population of Barbary deer (Cervus elaphus barbarus) lives across the northern border of Algeria and Tunisia; its small population size and global-change pressures limit conservation options, and basic habitat requirements, including...
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