Niclosamide, an oral antihelminthic drug, has been used to treat tapeworm infection for about 50 years. Niclosamide is also used as a molluscicide for water treatment in schistosomiasis control programs. Recently, several groups have independently discovered that niclosamide is also active against cancer cells, but its precise mechanism of antitumor action is not fully understood. Evidence supp...

Copper sulphate, CuSO4.5H2O (Fine Chemical, India), Purity (99%) and CAS No. 7758-98-7, a broad-spectrum inorganic pesticide, has many-fold uses as fungicide, molluscicide and weedicide. The adult Indian skittering frog, Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis was treated In vivo with different sublethal concentrations of CuSO4 (3.5, 5.0, 6.5 and 8.0mg/kg) after calculating the LC50 value which was found to b...

The effect of sub-lethal feeding of bait formulations containing molluscicidal component of Ferula asafoetida (ferulic acid, umbelliferone), Syzygium aromaticum (eugenol) and Carum carvi (limonene) on biochemical changes in the ovotestis of snail Lymnaea acuminata were studied. Bait formulations feeding to L. acuminata were studied in clear glass aquaria having diameter of 30 cm. Baits were pre...

Sodium pentachlorophenate (NaPCP) is still one of the most commonly used molluscicides in Japan ; since 1953, the major endemic areas of schistosomiasis have been treated with this compound twice a year, in spring and autumn when irrigation is stopped. It is therefore of interest to know whether resistance of the snail to the molluscicide appears in the areas. Some authors (Okabe, Okahara and O...

Snail control method is one of the best ways to management fasciolosis. attractant pellets (bait) containing and molluscicide good alternative for Lymnaea acuminata, which a known intermediate host Fasciola gigantica. The result present study find attraction umbelliferone in snail (SAP) against vector different months year. Data shows that active molluscicidal component (umbelliferone) showed m...