Tong Hao—an Asian Vegetable Expanding in Florida by Guodong Liu, Qingren Wang, Bonnie Wells, Yuncong Li, David Dinkins

“…Grown in China for more than 900 years, Tong Hao is a branched annual leafy herb that can be cooked and eaten. This 6-page fact sheet provides background information about Tong Hao, including information on growing, harvesting, and cooking it. …”
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Tong Hao—an Asian Vegetable Expanding in Florida by Guodong Liu, Qingren Wang, Bonnie Wells, Yuncong Li, David Dinkins

“…Grown in China for more than 900 years, Tong Hao is a branched annual leafy herb that can be cooked and eaten. This 6-page fact sheet provides background information about Tong Hao, including information on growing, harvesting, and cooking it. …”
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Role of Garlic in Chronic Diseases: Focusing on Gut Microbiota Modulation by Wei Quan Lim, Jia Ying Cheam, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Learn-Han Lee, Loh Teng-Hern Tan

“… Garlic is a herb and has been used as a spice with a long history in different types of cuisine. …”
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Mechanism of Action of Icariin in Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Aofei Yang, Chaochao Yu, Qilin Lu, Hao Li, Zhanghua Li, Chengjian He

“…Icariin (ICA) is the active ingredient of Herba epimedii, a common herb used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) formulations, and can effectively enhance BMSC proliferation and osteogenesis. …”
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Different behavior of electrosurgical currents between air and saline immersion therapeutic endoscopy by Antonio Capogreco, Roberta Maselli, Markus Enderle, Nermin Salkic, Sandra Keller, Francesco De Gaetano, Elisabetta Mastrorocco, Roberto de Sire, Ludovico Alfarone, Davide Massimi, Jérémie Jacques, Romain Legros, Mathieu Pioche, Yuichi Mori, Cesare Hassan, Alessandro Repici

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Mechanistic insights into pachymic acid’s action on triple-negative breast Cancer through TOP2A targeting by Ming Liu, Li Zheng, Yang Zhang, Jinhui Tian

“…The related targets of PA were predicted and screened using the following 6 databases: Swiss Target Prediction, HERB (Herbal Medicine Database), ETCM (Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicine), BATMAN (Bioinformatics Analysis Tool for Molecular Mechanism of Traditional Chinese Medicine), HIT (Herb Ingredients’ Targets Database), and PharmMapper. …”
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Adsorption of Cd (II), Cu (II), and Zn (II) from Aqueous Solution onto Nitrogen-Functionalized Desmostachya bipinnata by Jagjit Kour, Puspa Lal Homagai, Massimo Cagnin, Antonio Masi, Megh Raj Pokhrel, Kedar Nath Ghimire

“…A very simple means of nitrogen functional group grafting onto the backbone of Desmostachya bipinnata is investigated, which is a sacrificial herb in the south Asian region particular to Hindu religion. …”
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On differential subordinations for a class of analytic functions defined by a linear operator by V. Ravichandran, Herb Silverman, S. Sivaprasad Kumar, K. G. Subramanian

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Construction of Planar Harmonic Functions by Jay M. Jahangiri, Herb Silverman, Evelyn M. Silvia

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Icariin Promotes Survival, Proliferation, and Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells In Vitro and in a Rat Model of Alzheimer’s Disease by Denglei Ma, Lihong Zhao, Li Zhang, Yali Li, Lan Zhang, Lin Li

“…Icariin (ICA) is the main active component in Epimedium, a traditional Chinese herb. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects and mechanisms of ICA on the proliferation and differentiation of NSCs in the basal forebrain of a fimbria-fornix transection (FFT) rat model. …”
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Ex vivo biotransformation of lady’s mantle extracts via the human gut microbiota: the formation of phenolic metabolites and their impact on human normal and colon cancer cell lines... by Katarzyna Jakimiuk, Aleksandra Kruk, Marta Kinga Lemieszek, Jakub W. Strawa, Sebastian Granica, Adrian Wiater, Michał Tomczyk

“…The A. vulgaris herb metabolites were obtained by incubating the extract (AV) with human fecal slurries from three healthy donors (D1, D2, and D3).ResultsAfter incubating the AV extract with the human gut microbiota (AVD1-AVD3 samples), thirty-three metabolites were detected and characterized by LC-MS. …”
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A Spotlight on Chemical Constituents and Pharmacological Activities of Nigella glandulifera Freyn et Sint Seeds by Besma Boubertakh, Xin-Guang Liu, Xiao-Lan Cheng, Ping Li

“…We put also a spotlight on the recently studied therapeutic potentials of such amazing herb seeds as antidiabetes, melanogenesis inhibition, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antithrombosis, and antiplatelet aggregation effects. …”
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Study of Traditional Uses, Extraction Procedures, Phytochemical Constituents, and Pharmacological Properties of Tiliacora triandra by Gitishree Das, Sushanto Gouda, Rout George Kerry, Hernán Cortes, María L. Del Prado-Audelo, Gerardo Leyva-Gómez, Patrick Valere Tsouh Fokou, Erick P. Gutiérrez-Grijalva, J. Basilio Heredia, Han-Seung Shin, Jayanta Kumar Patra

“…Diels (Menispermaceae family) is a Southeast Asian angiosperm herb. Traditional medicine in these areas often includes the use of plant parts. …”
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Oleraceins from Portulaca oleracea leaves: Quali-quantitative determination and antioxidant potential by Ciro Cannavacciuolo, Assunta Napolitano, Verena M. Dirsch, Elke H. Heiss, Milena Masullo, Sonia Piacente

“…(purslane) is a spontaneous herb whose shoots are appreciated in the Mediterranean and Asian diets for their fresh flavor and crunchy texture. …”
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Isoliquiritigenin Inhibits Atherosclerosis by Blocking TRPC5 Channel Expression by Jie Qi, Jianguo Cui, Baobin Mi, Xiaohong Yan, Wenwen Xu, Hui Ma, Qingtan Zhang, Fang Xu

“…Isoliquiritigenin (ISL) is a flavonoid isolated mainly from the licorice plant, a traditional Chinese herb. ISL has shown anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antidiabetic activities. …”
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Breeding results for Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench in Moscow Province by I. N. Korotkikh, E. Yu. Babaeva, A. E. Burova

“…According to the results of competitive variety trials in 2014–2016, the breeding accessions reliably exceeded the reference ‘Tanyusha’ in a set of economically valuable parameters: in crude herb yield by 10–27%; in the content and total harvest of active substances in crude herb materials by 7–18% and 21–80%, respectively; and in seed yield by 35–47%. …”
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Evaluation of antioxidant and anti-hypercholesterolemic potential of Vitis vinifera leaves by Sushma Devi, Randhir Singh

“…Background: Vitis vinifera is universally appreciated herb (especially fruit) for their delicacy, nutrition and conventional as functional food. …”
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Quantitative Characteristics of Brown Bear (Ursus arctos L.) Feeding on Umbelliferae Plants by S.S. Ogurtsov

“…In all the biotopes, bears are attracted to herb sites with the highest abundance of consumed plants. …”
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Effects of γ-Irradiation of Wild Thyme (Thymus serpyllum L.) on the Phenolic Compounds Profile of Its Ethanolic Extract by Janiak Michał A., Slavova-Kazakova Adriana, Kancheva Vessela D., Ivanova Milena, Tsrunchev Tsvetelin, Karamać Magdalena

“…Ethanolic extracts of irradiated and non-irradiated herb were prepared and their compounds were analyzed by RP-HPLC-DAD technique. …”
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Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles from the Aqueous Extract of Leaves of Ocimum sanctum for Enhanced Antibacterial Activity by Charusheela Ramteke, Tapan Chakrabarti, Bijaya Ketan Sarangi, Ram-Avatar Pandey

“…We report the synthesis of antibacterial silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) using leaf broth of medicinal herb, Ocimum sanctum (Tulsi). The synthesized AgNPs have been characterized by UV-Vis spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray diffractometry. …”
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