The present study was aimed to evaluate the therapeutic potential of Pimpinella tirupatiensis (Pt) by assaying the activities of selective mitochondrial enzymes in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats. Diabetic rats showed a significant (p < 0.01) reduction in the activities of oxidative enzymes Succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), Malate dehydrogenase (MDH), Glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) and isocitr...

Two new monoterpenoid coumarins: anisucumarin A (1) and B (2), a pair of epimers, were isolated from Clausena anisum-olens. Their structures were established based on extensive spectroscopic analyses.

A new subspecies Seseli gummiferum Pall. ex Sm. subsp. ilgazense A.Duran, Ö.Çetin & M.Öztürk, subsp. nov. (Apiaceae) is described from Kastamonu province, Turkey. It was collected from the open Pinus sylvestris L. and Abies nordmanniana (Steven) É.Spach. mixed forest in the northern Anatolian region. An endemic apparently confined to the Ilgaz Mountain National Park, the new taxon is closely re...

Walshe, iMl.D., D.Sc., F R.S. Tenth Edition. (Pp. xii + 381; figs. 60. 35s.) Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livin.gstone, 1963. THiE appeartanice of the tenth editioni of this textbook twenty-threc years since it was first published reflects its great pol)Ulllarity. The author alludes in the prefatce that its reviewers would probably not be drawn from the ranks of those to vholom the 1)ook is pa...