Vinca rosea (fam. apocynaeceae) is a medicinal plant commonly grown in Indian gardens and a native of West Indies. Various parts of this plant have been reported to exert antidiabetic, hypotensive and antileukemic property (1-3). Significant hypoglycemic and antihyperglycemic activity of water soluble fraction of alcoholic extract of leaves of Vinca rosea in rats have already been reported by t...

Sergey V. Dmitriev, Avinash Khare, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Avadh Saxena and Ljupćo Hadžievski Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems RAS, 39 Khalturina, Ufa 450001, Russia Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Orissa 751005, India 3 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-4515, USA Center for Nonlinear Studies and Theoretical Division, Los A...

Microtubules (MTs) are key components of the cytoskeleton for all eukaryotes and are vital for cellular processes such as mitotic spindle formation, intracellular transport, vesicle formation, cellular signaling, and migration. These functions depend on the dynamic nature of MTs, which arises from the polymerization and depolymerization events of individual heterodimers, made up of αand β-tubul...

The present study was carried out to evaluate the antidiabetic activity of Vinca rosea methanolic whole plant extracts in alloxan induced diabetic rats for 14 days. The methanolic whole plant extract at high dose (500 mg/kg) exhibited significant anti-hyperglycemic activity than whole plant extract at low dose (300 mg/kg) in diabetic rats. The methanolic extracts also showed improvement in para...

A number of vinca alkaloids, including vincristine, vinblastine, and vinorelbine, are currently used in cancer chemotherapy. These three vinca alkaloids interact differently with a range of solid and hematologic tumors. To test the possibility that the tubulin isotype composition is an important determinant in antineoplastic efficacy, we determined thermodynamic parameters for vinca alkaloid in...

the hydroalcoholic extracts of dried ligulate florets of calendula officinalis l., dried leaves of plantago major l., and dried aerial parts of vinca major l. were prepared and used as the main active ingredients of two types of anti-anorectal disease ointments and suppositories. benzocaine was used in one of the formulations, while a mixture of belladonna dry extract and ephedrine sulfate was ...

An experiment to study the effect of inter and intra row spacing on the yielding performance of periwinkle species was conducted at Nagarjun Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research Scheme, P. K. V., Akola (M. S.) during 1980 - 81 to 82 - 83. Three species viz., Catharanthus roseus, Catharanthus alba and Catharanthus oscillatus did not differ significantly in respect of dried foliage and root yie...

Vermicompost (VC) is a nutrient-rich material that mixed with soil, and it used in this study. Four different environments were created such as control (Soil:VC:100–0%), mix one (Soil:VC:70–30% w/w), two (Soil:VC:50–50% three (Soil:VC:40:60% well-developed roses (Vinca rosea valiant, Pelargonium peltatum, Pegasus patio) seedlings transferred to individual pots. Plant growth parameters, i.e., th...