Oxidative stress remains one of the most well studied, albeit somewhat contentious, causes of age-related changes in humans. Consequently, a large number of putative antioxidant compounds are freely available in myriad formulations that are often not tested for their efficacy or regulated for quality control. Following the development of a Drosophila model of oxidative-stress dependent aging (p...

Pongamia pinnata is a marsh growing Indian tree. Its seeds are used in febrile and inflammatory diseases in Indian system of medicine. Previous preliminary studies with ethanolic seed extract of this plant had exhibited an anti-inflammatory effect in rat. Different solvent fractionated extracts were evaluated in the present study for anti-inflammatory effect in chemically induced paw inflammati...

The human population may be exposed to potentially leukemogenic agents, either in the form of drugs and food additives or as environmental contaminants and pollutants. However, in spite of the large number and diversity of these chemicals, only a few have been implicated as human leukemogens. One such agent is benzene, a known bone marrow depressant. A number of case reports have associated chr...

N M R emission and e n h a n c e d absorpt i on o f p roduc t s o f radical react ions ( C I D N P ) is e x p l a i n e d b y nuc lear spin d e p e n d e n t ad iabat i c transit ions be tween singlet a n d tr iplet states o f transient radical pairs. I n m a g n e t i c fields larger than a b o u t 1 k G o n l y S — To-transit ions c ont r ibute t o nuc lear polar izat ion. F r o m a k inet i ...