Psychiatry related information on Lavandula

• Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia, P. Miller) is used in aromatherapy as a holistic relaxant and is said to have carminative, antiflatulence and anticolic properties [1].

High impact information on Lavandula

• Lavandula angustifolia Hidcote species, which contains a higher level of linalyl acetate and linalool but little camphor, was evaluated as the highest quality among the four different Lavandula species [2].
• In this work we studied the local anaesthetic activity of the essential oil obtained from Lavandula angustifolia Mill., a medicinal plant traditionally used as an antispasmodic [3].
• Biotin biosynthesis was investigated in lavender cell cultures (Lavandula vera L.). Two different biological assays and two different HPLC procedures were used to identify all the intermediates involved in biotin biosynthesis [4].
• The all-round effect of dissolved oxygen concentration, agitation speed, and temperature on the rosmarinic acid production by Lavandula vera MM cell suspension was studied in a 3-L laboratory bioreactor by means of the modified Simplex method [5].
• In this study the antinociceptive and the gastroprotective effects of orally administered or inhaled Lavandula hybrida Reverchon "Grosso" essential oil, and its principal constituents linalool and linalyl acetate were evaluated in rodents [6].

Biological context of Lavandula

• Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) oil, chiefly composed of linalyl acetate (51%) and linalool (35%), is considered to be one of the mildest of known plant essential oils and has a history in wound healing [7].
• The oxidative stability of rosmarinic acid (alpha-O-caffeoyl-3,4-dihydroxyphenyllactic acid) in lavandin (Lavandula x intermedia) cell cultures was studied in an attempt to explain the decrease in the rosmarinic acid content of aging cell cultures, a process which is associated with the appearance of brown pigments [8].
• The decrease in adrenaline, noradrenaline and dopamine levels induced by ether-inhalation tended to recover, especially, the dopamine level significantly recovered to the normal level by the inhalation of Lavandula burnetii super and linalool vapor [9].

Associations of Lavandula with chemical compounds

• Optimization procedures according to the modified Simplex method allowed us to establish the optimal conditions for the biosynthesis of rosmarinic acid by Lavandula vera MM: X(1*) = 0.09 g/L; X(2*) = 3.02 g/L, and X(3*) = 0.170 g/L, where Y(1)max = 1786.74 mg/L (27 times higher compared with the cultivation in the standard Linsmayer-Skoog medium) [10].
• 5 patients also reacted to the fragrance components lavender (Lavandula augustifolia) oil and/or neroli (Citrus aurantium dulcis) oil 5% in alcohol [11].
• Lavandula stoechas, a native plant of Greece, is rich in essential oil and fenchone is its major constituent [12].
• Effects of Lavandula officinalis and Equisetum arvense dry extracts and isoquercitrin on the fermentation of diets varying in forage contents by rumen microorganisms in batch culture [13].
• The anti-inflammatory active fraction of the Paraguayan crude drug, "Alhucema," Lavandula latifolia Vill. afforded four compounds: coumarin (1), 7-methoxycoumarin (2), trans-phytol (3) and caryophyllene oxide (4) [14].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Lavandula

• Tentative evidence of a rosmarinic acid peroxidase in cell cultures from lavandin (Lavandula x intermedia) flowers [8].

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