Purpose: Indigofera tinctoria Linn. of the Fabaceae family is claimed to be useful in the treatment of a variety of epileptic disorders in Indian traditional system of medicine. The present study was designed to verify this claim. Methods: Status epilepticus was induced in male albino rats of Wistar strain by administration of pilocarpine (30 mg/kg, i.p.) 24 h after injection of lithium chlorid...

Pollution in aquatic ecosystems by various pollutants has been a concern recent decades because of the devastating effect posed on stability between receiving water bodies and biodiversity therein. Indigofera tinctoria used variety fields, including health medicine, as well industrial applications such textiles. The impacts I. freshwater fishes, mechanisms underlying biological effects, are, ho...

Seeds of two Wrightia species, i.e. W. tinctoria and W. coccinea, synthesize triacylglycerols containing isoricinoleoyl (9-hydroxy-cw12-octadecenoyl, 9-OH-A18:l) moieties as the major lipid constituents. Seed maturation is accompanied by lipid accumulation and steep increase in the level of 9-OH-A 18:l in the total lipids, while relative proportions of palmitic (16:0), oleic (18:1), and linolei...

The methods of extraction, separation and analysis of alkaloids and indole glucosinolates (GLs) ofIsatis tinctoria were reviewed. Different analytical approaches such as High-pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Liquid Chromatography with Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (LC/ESI/MS), Electrospray Ionization Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (ESI-TOF-MS), and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance...

Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a slowly progressive disease characterized by the overproduction of granulocytes (neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils). A blood smear shows moderate elevations in white blood cell counts that may persist for years and be benign. Platelets are increased in number, although their function is impaired, resulting in symptoms of easy bleeding (purpura, swoll...

An investigation has been made about the vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonization in some medicinal plants Catharanthus roseus, C. pusillus, Wrightia tinctoria, Thevetia peruviana, Nerium indicum and Alstonia scholaris belongs to family Apocyanaceae were screened for the occurrence and association of VA mycorrhizal fungi. All the plants screened in the study harbored VA mycorrhizal f...