Vincristine, an alkaloid of periwinkle plant (vinca) used in the treatment of various malignancies. The experimental group included 36 male wistar albino rats. The animals were divided into four groups of nine animals each. The animals received same dose of vincristine 1 mg/kg b.w. given intragastrically through a ne rubber catheter reaching lower third of oesophagus. Equal number of controls ...

We demonstrate the presence of animal personality in an inter-tidal gastropod, Littorina littorea, both in a sample of individuals infected by the trematode Cryptocotyle lingua and in an uninfected sample. On average infected individuals behaved more cautiously than individuals free of infection, but the parasite did not affect repeatability. Although the parasite is not associated with greater...

An experiment to study the feasibility of intercropping the short duration agronomical crops in periwinkle was conducted at Nagarjun Medicinal Plants Garden, P.K.V. Akola during 1988 - 89, 89 - 90 and 90 - 91. The highest monetary return of Rs. 15,604/ per hectare was obtained from an intercropping system of periwinkle and groundnut is row proportion of 2:1.

Cadmium (Cd) is one of the most harmful metals, being toxic to most animal species, including marine invertebrates. Among marine gastropods, the periwinkle (Littorina littorea) in particular can accumulate high amounts of Cd in its midgut gland. In this organ, the metal can elicit extensive cytological and tissue-specific alterations that may reach, depending on the intensity of Cd exposure, fr...

Landscape groundcover plants are a diverse group of trailing or spreading species that naturally form continuous soil coverage.Ground cover plants that were used in this study consisted of vegetative propagules of: Vinca minor L. ٬Variegatum’, Vinca minor L. ٬Green’, Oxalis brasiliensis G. Lodd, Trifolium repens L., Phyla nodiflora L. and Frankenia thymifolia Desf. The aim of this study was to ...

Influence of various sets of evaluated six-group delayed neutron parameters on kinetic parameters P e[f and P e f f / A is analyzed. The comparative study of the kinetic parameters is made for the coupled fast-thermal system HERBE at the Vinca Institute. Methods of calculation and measurement techniques used in this analysis are described. The results of calculations are compared with measureme...