Oxidative stress occurs in diabetic patients and experimental models of diabetes. The present study investigated the effects of leaves and flowers parts of Cassia auriculata ethanolic extract on alloxan induced diabetic rats by measuring fasting blood glucose, lipid peroxidation and liver antioxidant enzymes including superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx). ...

The increasing release of untreated fish farming effluents into water courses that flow to the Pantanal wetlands in Mato Grosso (Brazil) may drive this ecosystem to eutrophication. Therefore, the growth of Azolla caroliniana Willd. and Salvinia auriculata Aubl. in fish farming effluent and their effect on its quality were evaluated for 48 days in a greenhouse. The results were compared to those...

Medicinal plants are source of important therapeutic aids for alleviating human ailments. The history of drug is intricately interowen with natural products for centuties. In tune with this effort, the objective set for the present investigation is to estimate the phenolic and flavonoid contents in flower extracts of Cassia auriculata and Cassia siamea. The preliminary qualitative screening rev...

Heterostyly is a wide-spread floral adaptation to promote outbreeding, yet its genetic basis and evolutionary origin remain poorly understood. In Primula (primroses), heterostyly is controlled by the S-locus supergene that determines the reciprocal arrangement of reproductive organs and incompatibility between the two morphs. However, the identities of the component genes remain unknown. Here, ...

Medicinal plants have provided the modern medicine with numerous plant derived therapeutic agents. Cassia auriculata is highly valued in Indian medicines for management of painful inflammation and diabetes. The objective of this study was to evaluate the anti-inflammatory potential of acetone extract of C. auriculata flowers. The anti-inflammatory activity was evaluated using albumin denaturati...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is rapidly rising all over the world at an alarming rate and has changed from a mild disorder to major causes of mortality and morbidity in the youth and middle-aged people, and the prevalence is seen especially in six inhabited continents of the globe. The present study aims to explore the antidiabetic, lipid lowering effect of Cassia auriculata L. flowers in alloxan-induce...

The species composition, size distribution and abundance of diadromous neritid gastropods were studied in two coastal streams on Mo’orea French Polynesia, from October to November 2010. Five species of the family Neritidae were examined: Neritina auriculata Lamarck, Neritina canalis Lamarck, Neritina turrita Gmelin, Clithon spinosa Budgin, and Septaria porcellana Linnaeus. Sampling occurred at ...

Volemitol (D-glycero-D-manno-heptitol, alpha-sedoheptitol) is an unusual seven-carbon sugar alcohol that fulfills several important physiological functions in certain species of the genus Primula. Using the horticultural hybrid polyanthus (Primula x polyantha) as our model plant, we found that volemitol is the major nonstructural carbohydrate in leaves of all stages of development, with concent...

Medicinal plants have been investigated for possible anti-cancer effects. The aim of the present study was to examine the cytotoxic activity of several medicinal plants on different tumor cell lines. 11 selected plant species which have been used in folkloric prescriptions were collected from different sites of Hamedan district of Iran. The methanolic extracts of the plants were prepared and th...

We describe in this paper a system for exact inference with relational Bayesian networks as defined in the publicly available Primula tool. The system is based on compiling propositional instances of relational Bayesian networks into arithmetic circuits and then performing online inference by evaluating and differentiating these circuits in time linear in their size. We report on experimental r...