Bletilla striata is a valuable Chinese herbal medicinal plant widely used in various fields. To meet the market demand for this herb, tissue culture technology of B. was developed. However, drought stress has been significant threat to survival cultivated striata. further understand underlying mechanisms under stress, its response investigated at physiological and transcriptional levels. Our ph...

Mutation breeding is the defined approach used for crop production and has played a key role in creation of several varieties. The present research was carried out to induce mutants kodo millet variety CO 3 using physical mutagen (gamma rays) chemical (Ethyl Methane Sulphonate) creating novelty. Seeds were treated with five doses gamma-rays viz., 100 Gy, 200 300 400 500 Gy at BARC, Kalpakam thr...

Riama striata (Peters, 1863) is an endemic lizard from Colombia of the Gymnophthalmidae family. This species can live in habitats disrupted by anthropic factors; it has semifossorial habits and usually exhibits cryptic coloration. Here, we report first case erythrism for based on adult male a locality north Bogotá savanna.

the overall goal of this review is to discuss the potential efficacy of herbal treatments. plants are considered among the main sources of biologically active chemicals. plant based drugs usage in our past decay became very renowned due to their fewer side effects and being less expensive than chemical ones. recently, more abrupt tendency in this field has been increased. furthermore, advances ...

plant-based drugs are regarded promising recently. scrophularia has been shown various biological activities such as antimicrobial, antitumor and anti-inflammatory properties. according to pervious researches, bacteria are becoming resistant to some kinds of antibiotics, so it is prominent to find more reliable sources against them. here staphylococcus aureus as a common type of gram- positive ...

the objectives of this study are to investigate chromosomal aberrations of snakehead fish in a leachate-affected reservoir located 100 meters from a municipal landfill which compared to non-affected reservoir. three snakehead fish were collected and chromosomal aberrations were studied using kidney tissue. lead and mercury were measured in water, sediment and snakehead fish from the affected re...

Flower color not only determines the quality and commercial value of ornamental plants, but it also plays a vital role in ecological processes such as pollinator attraction. This study aimed to investigate relationship between flower cellular physicochemical factors Bletilla striata. The space values 21 samples were initially determined, followed by selection five with significant differences f...

Intestinal helminths are reported from four species of scincid lizards from southern Africa: Mabuya occidentalis, Mabuya spilogaster, Mabuya striata and Mabuya variegata. The helminth fauna consisted of one species of Cestoda, Oochoristica truncata and five species of Nematoda, Abbreviata paradoxa, Maxvachonia dimorpha, Parapharyngodon rotundatus, Spauligodon petersi and Thubunaea fitzsimonsi. ...

We examined effects of high doses of monosodium glutamate (MSG) on extracellular glutamate levels in rat striata, using in vivo microdialysis. Parenteral doses (0.5, 1.0 and 2.0, but not 0.25, g/kg, i.p.) caused dose- and time-dependent increases, peaking after 40 min (at 174 +/- 47%, 485 +/- 99% and 1021 +/- 301% of basal levels, respectively). In contrast, dietary MSG (1.49 +/- 0.10 g/kg/h) w...

Recent studies demonstrated that vesicular dopamine (DA) uptake can be rapidly altered in synaptic vesicles purified from the striata of stimulant-treated rats. Specifically, a single administration of the plasmalemmal DA transporter inhibitor, cocaine, or the DA D(2) agonist, quinpirole, increases vesicular DA uptake in vesicles purified from the striata of treated rats. These effects of cocai...