BACKGROUND The available drugs for diabetes, Insulin or Oral hypoglycemic agents have one or more side effects. Search for new antidiabetic drugs with minimal or no side effects from medicinal plants is a challenge according to WHO recommendations. In this aspect, the present study was undertaken to evaluate the antihyperglycemic and antihyperlipidemic effects of Piper longum root aqueous extra...

ed by: Full-text available at www.ajbrui.com www.bioline.br/md www.ajol.com Received: July, 2006 Accepted (Revised): December, 2006 Published January, 2007 Full Length Research Article Inhibitory effects of Ledebouria ovaltifolia (hyacithaceae) aqueous root extract on contractile responses of Rat Vas deferens to K and adrenaline, pendular movement of isolated rabbit jejunum and acetic acid indu...

The herbicide cilluron containing cyhalofop-butyl (10%) is an active ingredient. Cyhalofop-butyl has low oral, dermal and inhalation toxicity. In the present study the antigenotoxic effects of Brassica oleracea L. var. italica was evaluated using Allium cepa root chromosomal aberration assay against ciluron. Three types of treatments were given to roots in pre-treatment roots were first treated...

Chemical fungicides are used worldwide for enhance crop yield and control plant diseases. When crops are treated with chemical fungicides over a long period then some fungi develop resistance to these chemicals beside this these chemicals are harmful to other non target microorganism and disturb microbial community of soil. In view of these facts, it is urgent need to discover eco friendly, ren...

Concentration-dependent effects of aqueous extract from R. rosea root on long-term survival and stress resistance of budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae were studied. At low concentrations, R. rosea aqueous extract extended yeast chronological lifespan, enhanced oxidative stress resistance of stationary-phase cells and resistance to number stressors in exponentially growing cultures. At high...

An aqueous extract of Ephedra equisetina root was found to induce cyanobacterial cell death. The extract displayed no negative effects on the fish populations but instead, improved the habitat conditions for the growth of macrophytes, zooplankton and bacteria because the inhibiting effects of the extracts on cyanobacteria helped clear up the water column. The removal kinetics of cyanobacteria b...

BACKGROUND Root extracts of Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha) are known to possess analgesic, anti-inflammatory and chondroprotective effects. An aqueous extract of roots plus leaves of this plant has shown to yield higher percentages of withanolide glycosides and, accordingly, may possess better analgesic, anti-inflammatory and chondroprotective effects than root alone extracts. OBJECTIVES To...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate methanolic, ethanolic, acetone and aqueous extracts from different parts of Eurycoma longifolia (E. longifolia) (leave, stem, and root) for antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and to utilize the leaves and stem parts rather than the root, which is already used for male sexual enhancement in Malaysia. METHODS The study took place in the...

The impacts of aqueous extracts from different parts (root, stem, leaf and fruit) of bitter apple Citrullus colocynthis (Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae), with five different concentrations, on controlling the bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi (L.) (Homoptera: Aphididae) were investigated under laboratory conditions. Results showed that the effects of the aqueous extracts from different par...