Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is a rare autoimmune disease, causing multifocal CNS inflammation affecting the optic nerves & spinal cord. In 20th century, ‘Devics disease’ was considered as variant of Multiple sclerosis(MS) that spared brain. However, discovery IgG-class antibodies bind to water channel aquaporin-4 (AQP4-IgG) in serum from patients with Devic’s but not thos...

Creating conditions that enhance the abundance of resident populations of natural enemies in agroecosystems is considered critical to the efficiency of biological control of insect pests. We conducted a study to determine the potential of relay-intercropping for enhancing the abundance of aphidophagous lady beetles in sorghum. A relay-intercropping system consisting of alfalfa, winter wheat, an...