BACKGROUND Micro(mi)RNAs regulate gene expression through translational attenuation and messenger (m)RNA degradation, and are associated with differentiation, homeostasis and disease. Natural miRNA target recognition is determined primarily by perfect complementarity in a seed region (nucleotide positions 2 to 7) with additional interactions contributing in a sequence- and target-specific manne...

use of molluscicides in the attractant food pellet (afp) is an effective method of snail control. different concentrations of these molluscicides viz. azadirachta indica bark powder, allium sativum bulb powder, polianthes tuberosa bulb powder, annona squamosa seed powder, their active components azadirachtin, allicin, hecogenin, acetogenin; herbal molluscicide pestoban and a synthetic molluscic...

Pigs (n 100) between 28 and 56 d of age were given diets containing one of five protein concentrates ad lib. The utilization of methionine from the protein concentrates was compared with synthetic methionine. Increasing the methionine content of the diets from 1.5 to 2.2 g/kg diet increased the weight gains of the pigs from 61 g/d to 198-292 g/d. The feed conversion efficiencies decreased from ...

In recent years there has been an important development in different dosage forms for existing and newly designed drugs and natural products, semisynthetic as well as synthetic excipients often need to be used for a variety of purposes. Gums and mucilages are widely used natural materials for conventional and novel dosage forms. With the increasing interest in polymers of natural origin, the ph...

ABSTRACT: The commercial development of food products originated from the plants as sources of antioxidants to increase the health benefit and stabilize the food is of current interest. This study was aimed at obtaining dill extract using cold solvent method by three solvents, (methanol, acetone, and hexane) and examining the antioxidant potency and determining the oxidative stability of sunflo...

BACKGROUND Orodispersible tablets or fast dissolving tablets dissolve or disintegrate immediately on the patients' tongue or buccal mucosa. This drug delivery system is suitable for drugs undergoing high first pass metabolism. It improves bioavailability, reduces dosing frequency, and thereby minimizes the side effects and also makes the dosage form more cost-effective. In this study, polysacch...

. In order to study the variation for seed yield and its components, 200 accessions of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) were sown as drilled plots, using alpha designs/unreplicated with two repeated entries with in all of 10 blocks under dry land farming system in Kabodarahang Research Station, Hamadan, Iran, during 2010 to 2011. Data were analyzed for descriptive statistics, correlation, regressio...

in this study, the essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation of the seeds of vitex pseudo-negundo (verbenaceae), growing wild in sabzevar, khorasan razavi province, iran, were analyzed by gc and gc/ms. the yield of total volatiles was 0.8% (w/w). thirty-seven compounds representing 92.4% of the seed oil were identified. the main components of the oil were hexadecanoic acid (8.0%), elemol (7.0...

. in order to study the variation for seed yield and its components, 200 accessions of alfalfa (medicago sativa l.) were sown as drilled plots, using alpha designs/unreplicated with two repeated entries with in all of 10 blocks under dry land farming system in kabodarahang research station, hamadan, iran, during 2010 to 2011. data were analyzed for descriptive statistics, correlation, regressio...