Herbal Medicines are a fast emerging trend in recent times, as they provide safer, effcective and economical treatment to patients. Azadirachta indica (neem) has been an integral part of health and oral care since times immemorial. It has shown to be an effective antimicrobial, antinflammatory and anticancer agent. In india it has been an indespensible part of oral care and is still a popular d...

Dalbergia sissoo and Azadirachta indica are commonly known trees of India. They belong to family leguminoseae (fabaceae) and meliaceae respectively. They are broadly used in folk medicine for several diseases. The present study is carried out on biochemical parameters i.e. on content of protein and glycogen with standardized method in liver and kidney of Sprague-dawley rats. Due to combined ext...

Medicinal plant extracts prepared with various selected solvents from four species, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Piper bittle, Azadirachta indica and Moringa olifera, were screened for animicrobial activity by using well diffusion method. Plant extracts showed strong antimicrobial action against microbes, among the plant extracts the extracts of Piper bittle shows maximum antimicrobial activity against ...

Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid is a destructive pathogen of cowpea that causes serious charcoal rot disease with significant yield losses. Antifungal activity of three indigenous Ascomycetes viz., Trichoderma harzianum, T. viride, and T. hamatum, and two Meliaceae members, i.e., Melia azedarach L. and Azadirachta indica L. were assessed against the pathogen. Laboratory screening trials wi...

The various parts of Melia dubia (Meliaceae) plant was observed to be used by the local tribes of Nilgiris for various infections. There was no report on antimicrobial activity of Melia dubia. Therefore, a preliminary phytochemical analysis and antimicrobial investigations were carried out on different extracts of Melia dubia bark. Ethanolic and aqueous extracts of the bark were found to posses...

This document introduces project Neem, its goals and directions, and its motivation. Project Neem at the University of Colorado is concerned with improving distributed multimedia meetings. A major novel aspect of this research is the use of intelligent artificial agents as full-fledged meeting participants. Goals of this interdisciplinary project include the enhancement of group interaction und...

This document introduces project Neem, its goals and directions, and its motivation. Project Neem at the University of Colorado is concerned with improving distributed multimedia meetings. A major novel aspect of this research is the use of intelligent artificial agents as full-fledged meeting participants. Goals of this interdisciplinary project include the enhancement of group interaction und...

The non-target effects of an azadirachtin-based systemic insecticide used for control of wood-boring insect pests in trees were assessed on litter-dwelling earthworms, leaf-shredding aquatic insects, and microbial communities in terrestrial and aquatic microcosms. The insecticide was injected into the trunks of ash trees at a rate of 0.2 gazadirachtin cm(-1) tree diameter in early summer. At th...

We investigated nesting behavior of non habituated chimpanzees populating the Nimba Mountains to document their abundance and their criterions of nesting-site selection. During a 19-month study we walked 80 km of transects and recces each month, and recorded 764 nests (mean group size = 2.23 nests) along with characteristics of vegetation structure and composition, topography, and seasonality. ...