Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by the abnormal aggregation of amyloid ß (Aß) peptide into insoluble fibrils called amyloid plaques. Preventing this process of fibrillization may offer effective therapy for treatment of AD. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of methanolic extracts of 13 plant species which are known to be brain boosters in Ayurvedic system of me...

Meywa Sing, a sowar in the Xlth Bengal Lancers, while preparing to go on guard on the evening of the 21st April suddenly complained of a pain commencing in his right foot and running up the inside of his leg ; he then fell down in an insensible state, and was taken to hospital; on the morning of the 22nd, he had a similar attack to the above, which was without doubt epileptic, the aura being mo...

The stimulatory or inhibitory effects of plant lectins on the production of gelatinase A (MMP-2) and gelatinase B (MMP-9) by mononuclear white blood cells was investigated by substrate zymography. Leukocyte cultures from 24-h old buffy coats were spontaneously activated and produced high levels of gelatinase B. Using such cultures the suppressing activity of the Datura stramonium, Viscum album,...

In this study, the antioxidant activity of the Convolvulus arvensis Linn (CA) ethanol extract has been evaluated by different ways. The antioxidant activity of the extract assessed by 2,2'-azino-bis-3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid (ABTS) radical cation, the oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) and the ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) was 1.62 mmol Trolox equivalents (TE)/g ...

Sankhapushpi (Convolvulus pluricaulis) the popular Medhya Rasayana drug of Indian medicine has been reported in the past as having significant beneficial effect in patients of anxiety neurosis and epilepsy. Sharma et al (1965) has reported that the extract of this drug reduces the spontaneous motor activity of mice, the reduction being more maked in amphetamine treated hyperactive mice. The hyp...

The article reviews the weed species composition of oat, sunflower, wheat, buckwheat, rapeseed and flax agrophytocenoses on 390 fields in 21 districts Altai Krai: Aleyskiy, Bistroistokskiy, Baevskiy, Burlinskiy, Kamenskiy, Kosikhinskiy, Krutikhinskiy, Kytmanovskiy, Loktevskiy, Mamontovskiy, Novichikhinskiy, Pankrushikhinskiy, Rebrikhinskiy, Rubtsovskiy, Shipunovskiy, Sovetskiy, Tretyakovskiy, T...