This study determined the effects of fenugreek on postprandial plasma glucose (PPG) and satiety among overweight and obese individuals. Fourteen subjects were studied in the morning after overnight fasts on four separate occasions. Glycaemic responses elicited by 50 g carbohydrate portions of white bread and jam with or without 5.5 g of fenugreek and fried rice with or without 5.5 g fenugreek w...

in this study, two reared chalcid wasps are newly recorded from fars province, iran, as the natural enemies of fig soft scale, eulecanium sp. (hemiptera: coccidae): (1) scutellista caerulea (fonscolombe) (pteromalidae: eunotinae) and (2) blastothrix hungarica erdã¶s (encyrtidae: encyrtinae). both species were collected from estahaban (may 2005) and darab (september 2005; june 2006).

Virulence of infectious pathogens can be unstable and evolve rapidly depending on the evolutionary dynamics of the organism. Experimental evolution can be used to characterize pathogen evolution, often with the underlying objective of understanding evolution of virulence. We used experimental evolution techniques (serial transfer experiments) to investigate differential growth and virulence of ...

Ten wet grassland species were fumigated with four concentrations of ozone (charcoal-filtered air, non-filtered air and non-filtered air plus 25 or 50 nl l(-1) ozone) in open-top chambers during one growing season to investigate the long-term effect of this air pollutant on various growth variables. Only Eupatorium cannabinum showed ozone-related foliar injury, while five species reacted with s...

Mitochondrial DNA sequences from 16S rRNA and ATPase8 genes were used to investigate phylogeographic patterns of the land snail Albinaria (Gastropoda: Clausiliidae) in the Aegean archipelago. Forty-two populations of Albinaria were analyzed, mainly A. turrita, A. caerulea and A. brevicollis, collected from 22 Aegean islands and certain surrounding regions. Maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood ...

Objective: The present study was conducted to determine the hypoglycemic and antioxidant potential of polyherbal formulation in alloxan induced diabetic rats. Study Design: In five different groups an aqueous suspension of herbal mixture containing equal amounts of– Azadirachta indica, Gymnema sylvestre, Momordica charantia, Syzigium cumini, Trigonella foenum was administered orally once a day ...