periwinkle (vinca minor l.) is an evergreen perennial herbaceous plant that belongs to the family apocynaceae. the aerial part of this plant contains certain alkaloids such as vincamine, isovincamine and vincine. the most important of these is vincamine that re-duces blood pressure and promotes memory and the ability for mental concentration. mi-cropropagation could be a good alternative for th...

Sergey V. Dmitriev, Avinash Khare, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Avadh Saxena and Ljupćo Hadžievski Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems RAS, 39 Khalturina, Ufa 450001, Russia Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Orissa 751005, India 3 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-4515, USA Center for Nonlinear Studies and Theoretical Division, Los A...

Microtubules (MTs) are key components of the cytoskeleton for all eukaryotes and are vital for cellular processes such as mitotic spindle formation, intracellular transport, vesicle formation, cellular signaling, and migration. These functions depend on the dynamic nature of MTs, which arises from the polymerization and depolymerization events of individual heterodimers, made up of αand β-tubul...

Abstract Important natural antimicrobial compounds derived from Vinca minor L. plant contain a wide variety of secondary metabolites which are useful for brain health (increasing blood circulation in the brain, supporting metabolism, preventing memory loss and problems with concentration premature aging cell), externally they play role tissue repair skin lesion healing. The testing activity alc...

A number of vinca alkaloids, including vincristine, vinblastine, and vinorelbine, are currently used in cancer chemotherapy. These three vinca alkaloids interact differently with a range of solid and hematologic tumors. To test the possibility that the tubulin isotype composition is an important determinant in antineoplastic efficacy, we determined thermodynamic parameters for vinca alkaloid in...

An experiment to study the effect of inter and intra row spacing on the yielding performance of periwinkle species was conducted at Nagarjun Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research Scheme, P. K. V., Akola (M. S.) during 1980 - 81 to 82 - 83. Three species viz., Catharanthus roseus, Catharanthus alba and Catharanthus oscillatus did not differ significantly in respect of dried foliage and root yie...