Aphanamixis polystachya is a traditional medicinal plant of the Meliaceae family in India. A crude ethanolic extract of the leaf of this plant shows a beneficial effect on toxic liver injury. Its antihepatotoxic activity was evaluated on carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced liver injury in a rat model. The assessment of hepatoprotective activity was evaluated by measuring the activities of aspar...

Medicago truncatula belongs to the legume family and forms symbiotic associations with nitrogen fixing bacteria, the rhizobia. During these interactions, the plants develop root nodules in which bacteria invade the plant cells and fix nitrogen for the benefit of the plant. Despite massive infection, legume nodules do not develop visible defence reactions, suggesting a special immune status of t...

Rhycnhosia schimperi Hochst. ex Boiss. is a rare plant of Indian Thar Desert and mostly confined to the Jaisalmer Barmer district Rajasthan. There are least information available on nodulation in it. In India comprehensive study native legumes was done by Gehlot et. al. 2012. which they have reported more than 30 (excluding Rhynchosia schimperi) with detail morphology & histology nodules th...

Taraxacum officinale has been used in Jordan folk medicine to treat male infertility. A recent study has proved a contradictory effect of the whole plant aqueous extract. The aim of the current study was to determine if the leaves of T. officinale have similar anti-fertility activities, and whether this effect is mediated through the regulation of spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs). Fifty adult m...

The effectiveness of an electronic histology tutorial (EHT) as a mode of learning was assessed by comparing performance on two term tests for an EHT class of sixty-nine students and five prior classes (n=347) who learned by traditional methods. The aims of this study were to 1) develop and introduce a self-instructional, computer-aided approach to guide student learning in the first-year histol...

this survey was aimed at detecting histological and histometrical changes of common carp ovaries in khouzestan province climate conditions. the goal was to determine the ovarian status in the breeding period of the reproductive cycle. ovaries of 49 common carp brooders were collected from april to october, 2010. the samples were taken from the anterior, median and posterior portions. 5-6µ secti...

abstract somatic embryogenesis is a new approach to in vitro plant propagation. this technique is based on stem cell obtain and its differentiation to a complete plant. this is affected by components of media culture. so, the effects of ms, b5 and nl media on carrot petiole somatic embryogenesis investigated via histological experiment. to do this, carrot petioles (with 1 cm dimension) cultured...

background and objective: the fallopian tube plays an essential role in tubal transportof both gametes and embryos and successful pregnancy. we assessed the histomorphological effect of smoking on the fallopian tubes in rats, in this study. patients and methods: twelve female rats were divided to two groups as subjects (n=7) and controls (n=5). they have been exposed to smoke four times daily f...