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...

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