Neurodegeneration refers to a condition of neuronal death occurring as a result of progressive disease of long term. It involves degeneration of circumscribed group of neurons that may be functionally or neuroanatomically connected. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive neurological disorder. Recent studies have indicated that a part of active compounds extracted from herbal medici...

background: present investigations were carried out to evaluate an ethanolic extract of oxalis corniculata linn. for its anticancer and antioxidant activity in ehrlich acsites carcinoma (eac) - induced in swiss albino mice. methods: cancer was induced in mice by aspiration of peritoneal fluid of eac inoculated mice and diluted to get 1x10 6 cells/ml in phosphate buffer. cancerous animals were d...

The distributions of endophytic bacteria in Alopecurus aequalis Sobol and Oxalis corniculata L. grown in soils contaminated with different levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were investigated with polymerase chain reaction followed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis technology (PCR-DGGE) and cultivation methods. Twelve types of PAHs, at concentrations varying from 0.16 to...

Cyrtodactylus rosichonariefi sp. nov. is the second newly described species of Bent-toed gecko from Bunguran Island (Great Natuna), Indonesia. This species occurs in the Sekunyam Forest and is differentiated from all other species of the C. semenanjungensis species group of the Thai-Malay Peninsula by having the following unique combination of characteristics: intermediate size (SVL of adult ma...