Aim: To identify the anti-mutagenic effect of Nigella sativa on the experimentally induced chronic diabetes (type – II) in Wistar rats. Materials and Methods: The anti-mutagenic effect was evaluated in Nigella sativa treated diabetic rats against the streptozotocin nicotinamide (STZ-NA) (at a dose rate of 45-110 i.p mg/kg b.wt for 90 days) induced type-II diabetes mellitus using bone marrow mic...

A epilepsia é um distúrbio neurológico crônico, onde acontece descargas elétricas anormais, causando convulsões nos acometidos com essa patologia. Há alguns séculos se sabe do poder medicinal que a Cannabis sativa possui, mas últimos anos pode-se perceber o aumento de estudos da utilização seus compostos, canabidiol, para tratamento várias doenças, como Parkinson, Alzheimer, Esclerose Múltipla,...

Advances in alfalfa [Medicago sativa (L.) subsp. sativa] breeding, molecular genetics, and genomics have been slow because this crop is an allogamous autotetraploid (2n = 4x = 32) with complex polysomic inheritance and few genomic resources. Increasing cellulose and decreasing lignin in alfalfa stem cell walls would improve this crop as a cellulosic ethanol feedstock. We conducted genome-wide a...

The phenotypic and genetic diversity of 77 isolates of Pyricularia grisea collected from two upland rice cultivars, Maravilha and Primavera, was studied. Isolates exhibiting compatible reaction to cv.Primavera were incompatible to cv.Maravilha and vice versa, with the exception of six isolates that were compatible to both cultivars. The virulence of isolates from cv. Maravilha on 32 test genoty...

M U C H recent work points to the conclusion that remarkable stores of genetic variability exist in natural and in domestic species of plants and animals. Among the requirements for understanding the nature of this variability, and the forces by which it is maintained, are adequate data concerning the magnitude of genetic variability within populations. However, the evidence on variability in n...

observation made it evident that further studies on the heat treatment of experimental rations were necessary. The work to be reported in this paper was started mainly to investigate the effect of autoclaving upon the nutritive properties of proteins. For this purpose the protein, edestin, was used in most of the work and the heat treatment was limited to autoclaving. Geiling ('17) obtained poo...

Arab scientists were several centuries ahead of our current knowledge of the curative power of hemp (Cannabis sativa L., Cannabaceae). Modern Western scientific literature ignores their contribution on the subject. We review in this paper the therapeutic uses of the plant in Arabic medicine from the 8th to the 18th century. Arab physicians knew and used its diuretic, anti-emetic, anti-epileptic...

Microplot experiments on flooded soil infested with Hirschmanniella oryzae were conducted to investigate the influence of the legum Sesbania rostrata as a rotat ion crop with rice, Oryza sativa L. cv. Moroberekan. To avoid a green manure effect f rom S. r'ostrata, all aerial parts were removed at harvest. The dry weight of paddy, culms and leaves, and n u m b e r of culms of rice following Sesb...