Rates of cerebral glucose utilization were measured by means of the autoradiographic P-deoxy-D-[ 1 -“Cl glucose technique in 70 anatomically discrete central nervous structures in conscious awake rats following unilateral intranigral application of the GABAergic agonist muscimol. lntranigral injection of 1.3 PI 1 PM muscimol(O.15 ng) induced increases in glucose consumption locally in the subst...

Plants have been one of the important sources of medicines since the beginning of human civilization. There is a growing demand for plant based medicines, health products, pharmaceuticals, food supplements and cosmetics. Annona squamosa (L) is a multipurpose tree with edible fruits and is a source one of the medicinal and industrial products. It is used as an antioxidant, anti-diabetics, hepato...

BACKGROUND: There is a strong negative relationship between high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) glycoprotein transporter that transfers esters to very low-density (LDL-C). The CETP inhibitor new strategy against CVD because its ability increase HDL-C. Various Indonesian plants have not been optimall...

Two new annonaceous acetogenins named as squamostanin-A and squamostanin-B were isolated from 95% EtOH extract of the seeds of Annona squamosa. Their structures were determined by spectroscopic method, and their cytotoxicities were evaluated using MTT method.

This paper uses value chain analysis as a novel method to examine the conservation status of and strategies for cherimoya (Annona cherimola Mill.), an underutilized, perennial fruit species native to the Andean valleys of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It was found that value chain features such as market channels, chain governance, quality performance and distribution of added value over chain act...

In this study, we investigated whether the protective effects of Neonauclea reticulata water extract against ultraviolet B (UVB) irradiation in human skin fibroblast cell cultures (Hs68) are governed by its ability to protect against oxidative stress and expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). We found that Neonauclea reticulata extract exhibited DPPH scavenging activity and inhibited A...

The aim of this study was to evaluate repeated measures over the years to estimate repeatability coefficient and the number of the optimum measure to select superior genotypes in Annona muricata L. The fruit production was evaluated over 16 years in 71 genotypes without an experimental design. The estimation of variance components and the prediction of the permanent phenotypic value were perfor...

Natural drug products have a special place and role in pharmacotherapy. Within them, herbs have been one of the important sources of medicinal products since the beginning of the human civilization. There is a growing demand for plant based medicines, health product, pharmaceuticals, food supplements, cosmetics etc. The present review was constructed using current medical information from abstr...