PDQ Integrative, Alternative, and Complementary Therapies Editorial Board PDQ Cancer Information Summaries, 2017 EXCERPT: This PDQ cancer information summary for health professionals provides comprehensive, peer-reviewed, evidence-based information about the use of aromatherapy and essential oils in the treatment of people with cancer. It is intended as a resource to inform and assist clinicians who care for cancer… Read more »
Limonene
- Backbone: Monoterpene
- Functional Group: None
Effect of heat treatments on the essential oils of kumquat (Fortunella margarita Swingle)
Peng LW, Sheu MJ, Lin LY, Wu CT, Chiang HM, Lin WH, Lee MC, Chen HC Journal of Food Chemistry, 2013 ABSTRACT: Kumquats (Fortunella margarita Swingle) cultivated in Taiwan are eaten raw or made into candied fruit or fruit tea. For the experiments described in this paper, essential oils were obtained from kumquat peels or… Read more »
Aroma oil therapy in palliative care: a pilot study with physiological parameters in conscious as well as unconscious patients
Goepfert M, Liebl P, Herth N, Ciarlo G, Buentzel J, Huebner J Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, 2017 ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE: The aim of this pilot study is to analyze the reactions of healthy test persons and conscious as well as unconscious palliative patients to aroma stimuli. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In a randomized controlled study,… Read more »
Rapid prediction and identification of lipase inhibitors in volatile oil from Pinus massoniana L. needles
Wang M, Gu D, Li H, Wang Q, Kang J, Chu T, Guo H, Yang Y, Tian J Phytochemistry, 2017 ABSTRACT: A facile method based on gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and molecular docking was established to analyze, identify, and predict lipase inhibitors in volatile oil from Pinus massoniana L. needles (PMLN). The volatile oil, with… Read more »
Polymer nanoparticles containing essential oils: new options for mosquito control
Werdin González JO, Jesser EN, Yeguerman CA, Ferrero AA, Fernández Band B Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017 ABSTRACT: Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) are vectors of important parasites and pathogens causing death, poverty and social disability worldwide. The overuse of synthetic insecticides to control mosquito vectors lead to resistance, adverse environmental effects and high operational costs…. Read more »
Essential oils diversely modulate genome-wide gene expression in human dermal fibroblasts
Han X, Parker TL Cogent Medicine, 2017 ABSTRACT: The increasing popularity of essential oils for skincare has led to investigation of their biological effects in human skin cells. In this study, we investigated the biological activities of three commercially available essential oils, i.e. rosemary oil, wild orange oil, and a blend (commercial name: Deep Blue)… Read more »
Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) essential oil significantly inhibits vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 and impacts genome-wide gene expression in human dermal fibroblasts
Han X, Parker TL Cogent Medicine, 2017 ABSTRACT: Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) essential oil (CEO) is popular in skin care, although no studies have reported its biological activity in human skin cells. We studied its effect on 17 protein biomarkers closely related to inflammation, immune responses, and tissue remodeling using a dermal fibroblast cell culture system… Read more »
Essential oils and their constituents as anticancer agents: a mechanistic view
Gautam N, Mantha AK, Mittal S BioMed Research International, 2014 ABSTRACT: Exploring natural plant products as an option to find new chemical entities as anticancer agents is one of the fastest growing areas of research. Recently, in the last decade, essential oils (EOs) have been under study for their use in cancer therapy and the… Read more »
Structural relationships and vasorelaxant activity of monoterpenes
Lima TC, Mota MM, Barbosa-Filho JM, Viana Dos Santos MR, De Sousa DP Daru, 2012 ABSTRACT: Background and purpose of the study The hypotensive activity of the essential oil of Mentha x villosa and its main constituent, the monoterpene rotundifolone, have been reported. Therefore, our objective was to evaluate the vasorelaxant effect of monoterpenes found… Read more »
Effect of various essential oils isolated from Douglas fir needles upon sheep and deer rumen microbial activity
Oh HK, Sakai T, Jones MB, Longhurst WM Applied microbiology, 1967 ABSTRACT: The effects of essential oils isolated from Douglas fir needles on sheep and deer rumen microbial activity were tested by use of an anaerobic manometric technique. Rumen microorganisms were obtained from a sheep which had been fed mainly on alfalfa hay and dried… Read more »