Dietary elements, commonly known as dietary minerals are chemical elements required by living organisms other than the elements present in the common organic molecules. Dietary fibre and minerals are important for healthy functioning of the human body. The mineral nutrition is an important aspect and its pivotal role in human life provides healthy growth. The present study was undertaken to ana...

Pyrethroids play an important role in modern agriculture but their use is not without risks to non-target organisms and habitats. They have high toxicity to a broad spectrum of aquatic organisms. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of low concentration (0.02 μg l(-1)) of two widely used pyrethroids--cypermethrin and deltamethrin on phyto- and zooplankton. The acute bioassays were...

Introduction: Diabetes is one of the most common diseases in this century. To cure this illness, herbal plants as well as medicine and diet therapy are used. This study is designed to determine the effect of citrullus colocynthis fruit pulp and seed on blood glucose in diabetic rabbits. Material and Methods: This experimental study was conducted on 36 white male New Zealand rabbits in animal la...

Background: Sudamala herb (Artemisia vulgaris L.) is often used in society as an anti tumor for organs of digestive system including oral cavity. Nevertheless, there are still no further scientific researches on active materials which can be used as anti carcinogen in oral cavity. Most of anti carcinogens are actually obtained from the genus Artemisia. Moreover, in Indonesia, the species of the...

background: leishmaniasis has been identified as a major public health problem in tropical and sub-tropical countries. the present study was aimed to investigate antileishmanial effects of various extracts of berberis vulgaris also its active com-poenent, berberine against leishmania tropica and l. infantum species on in vitro ex-periments. methods : in this study in vitro antileishmanial activ...

A 1.8 kb 5'-flanking region of the large subunit of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, isolated from watermelon (Citrullus vulgaris S.), has fruit-specific promoter activity in transgenic tomato plants. Two negative regulatory regions, from -986 to -959 and from -472 to -424, were identified in this promoter region by fine deletion analyses. Removal of both regions led to constitutive expression in...

First report on carminative and antacid effects of peeled crude extract of the Citrullus lanatus fruit. The authenticated fruit was taken, dried, powdered & finally weighed. The carminative activity of the extract was quantitavely detrmined by carbondioxide evalution method. The antacid behaviour was studied employing RossettRice test. The Citrullus lanatus extract showed a significant results ...

The essential oil composition of Thymus vulgaris L. and Rosmarinus officinalis L. endemic to France were determined by GC and GC-MS. Oils were assessed for their cytotoxic, antioxidant and antimicrobial activity. 31 and 37 different compounds were identified representing 99.64% and 99.38% of the thyme and rosemary oils respectively, where oxygenated monoterpenes constituted the main chemical cl...

The plant of c. colocynthis is perennial herbal the Cucurbitaceous types that isused as a traditional medicinal on Mediterranean tub and equatorialnations.Studies antibacterial properties Citrullus leaf extract,Medicinal plants have conventional been used in abortifacient treatsconstipation, edema, Infection caused by bacteria, cancer diabetesproblems.The efficacy citrullus colocynthesis (L.) w...