The impetus of writing this paper is to review various medicinal orchid species growing in different parts India. family orchidaceae one the diverse groups among angiosperms which includes types species. This written and therapeutic importance use for treatment diseases. Orchids are herbaceous plants mentioned ancient ayurvedic system medicine because their properties. Most epiphytic terrestria...

BrMedJf 1989;299:1579-81 It is now nearly 120 years since Wilks' described the condition that Sir James Paget called "osteitis deformans."2 Although Paget considered that he was describing a new disease, the fact that he was able to collect data on 23 cases during his lifetime suggests that it was an established condition. On 13 December 1882 in the Bradshaw lecture "On some rare and new diseas...

Little is known about the history of spinal deformities in ancient Greece. The present study summarizes what we know today for diagnosis and management of spinal deformities in ancient Greece, mainly from the medical treatises of Hippocrates and Galen. Hippocrates, through accurate observation and logical reasoning was led to accurate conclusions firstly for the structure of the spine and secon...

The current mode of treatment based on synthetic drugs is expensive and also causes genetic and metabolic alterations. However, safe and sound mode of treatment is needed to control the diseases development and progression. In this regards, medicinal plant and its constituents play an important role in diseases management via modulation of biological activities. Ginger, the rhizome of the Zingi...

Whether mammal-microbiome interactions are persistent and specific over evolutionary time is controversial. Here we show that host phylogeny and major dietary shifts have affected the distribution of different gut bacterial lineages and did so on vastly different bacterial phylogenetic resolutions. Diet mostly influences the acquisition of ancient and large microbial lineages. Conversely, corre...

Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters (ISCs) are versatile, ancient co-factors of proteins that are involved in electron transport, enzyme catalysis and regulation of gene expression. The synthesis of ISCs and their insertion into apoproteins involves the function of complex cellular machineries. In eukaryotes, the mitochondrial ISC-assembly machinery is involved in the maturation of all cellular iron-su...

Comparative genomic analyses of primates offer considerable potential to define and understand the processes that mold, shape, and transform the human genome. However, primate taxonomy is both complex and controversial, with marginal unifying consensus of the evolutionary hierarchy of extant primate species. Here we provide new genomic sequence (~8 Mb) from 186 primates representing 61 (~90%) o...

Copyright: © 2013 Woldemeskel M. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Cancer is a general term used to denote malignant neoplasms in humans and animals that if untreated often end up with fatal meta...

The recorded history of rabies goes back to 2300 BC, when a dog owner in ancient Babylon was charged for a death caused by a dog bite. Ancient Greek philosophers such as Democritus, Aristotle and Celsus as well as the prominent physician Galen, had warned people of the dangers associated with the bite of a mad dog, showing that the infectivity of the animal was suspected some 2000 years ago. Ho...

Medicinal plants were shown to play a significant role in curing many diseases of ancient times. The plant kingdom is truly goldmine potential drug compounds. Several earlier reviews and research studies summarized that the products from natural sources have contributed significantly discovery drugs health benefits for people. Moreover, it believed are less deadly than synthetic medicines becau...