Traditionally, people of every ethnicity often use traditional medicines made from plants to treat diseases that attack humans. Likewise, in Oelnasi Village, Central Kupang District, Regency, used drink boiled ketul leaves (Bidens pilosa L) cure diarrheal diseases. The certainty the medicinal efficacy taken Timor has never been scientifically proven. Therefore, research prove it needs be done. ...

The half-life of a gap-junction polypeptide band migrating at 21,000 Mr on SDS polyacrylamide gels isolated from mouse liver is measured to be 5 h. Two low-molecular wight bands, probably related to the 21,000 Mr material by proteolysis, have measured half-lives of 4.6 and 5.2 h. Gap junctions are labeled in vivo using the 14C-bicarbonate labeling procedure, followed by quantitative fluorography.

In a bioassay-guided search for acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors from 180 medicinal plants, an ethyl acetate extract of whole plants of Agrimonia pilosa ledeb yielded tiliroside (1), 3-methoxy quercetin (2), quercitrin (3) and quercetin (4). We report herein for the first time that all four flavonol compounds showed significant inhibitory effects on AChE, particularly quercetin (4), which...

A new genus and species of non-hadrosaurid hadrosauriform dinosaur, Brighstoneus simmondsi gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation Isle Wight. The taxon has two autapomorphies, a nasal having modest bulla with convex sides, primary accessory ridges on lingual aspect maxillary crown. dentary at least 28 alveolar positions, which highest number recorded in an orn...

The name Dasya pilosa (Weber-van Bosse) A. Millar has become accepted in the current literature and is regarded as having the two heterotypic taxonomic synonyms D. adhaerens Yamada and Dasyopsis anastomosans Weber-van Bosse. The historical background of this synonomy is presented, including current ideas about the relationship between Dasya and Eupogodon. Because the oldest name available is Da...