Corrosion casts of the blood vessels in the oral mucosa of Rana esculenta were examined by the scanning electron microscope. Special attention was paid to the palatine capillaries characterized by numerous blind diverticula. Microanatomy and topography of these peculiar vessels suggests their involvement in gas exchange. The diverticula of the capillaries visible in the casts in form of nodules...

The active metabolites of Colocasia esculenta L. and Zingiber officinale have been reported to reduce pain exert anti-inflammatory effects. This study aimed examine the analgesic effects a combination C. Z. extract. Thirty rats mice were each divided into 6 groups (n=5), namely normal group, negative control, positive control (Nadiclofenac), 3 test given extract (dose 1.3 mg/20 gBW, 2.6 5.2 gBW...

Superoxide dismutase has been purified to homogeneity from Lens esculenta cotyledons and shoots. The two forms appeared to be identical. The purified enzyme contained two electrophoretically distinct bands. It contained two ions of Cu and two ions of Zn. Gel filtration experiments indicate a molecular weight of about 33,000. The spectrum of ultraviolet and visible regions and electron paramagne...

After injecting a solution of a fluorescent retrograde neuronal tracer (Fast blue, Diamidino compound 253/50) into the perilymphatic space of the frog labyrinth (Rana esculenta), labeled cells were found in the ventral and dorsal nuclei of the VIIIth nerve and in the nucleus reticularis medius. We consider these labeled cells to be the origin of the efferent innervation of the frog labyrinth. N...

Katphala or Kaiphala, botanically equated with plant Myrica esculenta Buch. - Ham., is an important bark drug of Indian systems of medicine. It is one of the plant species, which are under imminent danger of extinction from U. P. Himalayas. Since, no pharmacognostic study on this drug is on record, the present investigations has been undertaken. In this article, macroscopic and microscopic char...

activities of the two enzymes recorded in Table 1 for various animals cannot be compared with each other since the supernatants of the homogenates contain only a portion of the total content of the respective hexosaminidases and since the instability of serylA-acetylgalactosaminidase3 may vary with the source. The relatively high specific activity of serylA-acetylgalactosaminidase of the oviduc...

Ergosterol derivatives exhibited copious promising biological activities. The fungus Gyromitra esculenta is widely distributed in Europe and North America. In order to examine the chemical properties of esculenta, a phytochemical study has been preceded resulted isolation steroid, ergosta-5, 22-dien-3β-ol (brassicasterol), from its methanol extract. complete identification absolute configuratio...