Gastrointestinal dysfunction is common in Parkinson's disease. Fiber therapy could be used to reduce the symptoms of gastrointestinal motility disorders. In a previous study, we showed that slowed gastrointestinal motility modified levodopa pharmacokinetics: area under the plasma concentration-time curve (AUC) and maximum plasma concentration (C(max)) decreased and the elimination was delayed. ...

Fiber formulations are used in human nutrition owing to their beneficial properties for health. It is probable that ingestion of fiber coincides with the oral administration of drugs, and a modification of its oral absorption, and therefore of its pharmacokinetics, can appear. In the present study, the compartmental and noncompartmental pharmacokinetic parameters of ethinylestradiol (EE) in rab...

Consumption of herbal plants as a remedy to relieve the side effects of fat rich diets is on rise currently. The present study was conducted to scrutinize the impact of fat and fat reducing herbal agents on the serum proteins of Rattus norvegicus. Four groups of adult (A) & weaning (W) R. norvegicus one control and three experimental groups were designated as 0, I, II and III and were fed on ra...

pisciculture has benefited human being during last decades. among different species oncorhynchus mykiss is of great important. its increasing mortality due to infectious diseases and also infectivity of synthetic drugs motivated us to evaluate the effect of alcoholic extract of plantago ovata on some hematological parameters of this species. hematological parameters could act as symptoms of hea...

15 new native and alien species of vascular plants are reported for the Irkutsk Region, Republic Buryatia, Trans-Baikal Territory: Agropyron michnoi Roshev., Arctopoa schischkinii (Tzvelev) Prob., Arnica intermedia Turcz., Atocion armeria (L.) Fourr., Cynodon dactylon Pers., Dracocephalum argunense Fisch. ex Link, Eragrostis minorHost, Festuca richardsonii Hook., Lespedeza davurica (Laxm.) Schi...

Commonly called Psyllium (Ispaghula Psyllium, Plantago ispaghula and Plantago ovata), has a long history of use as a dietary fiber supplement, primarily as a gentle bulk-forming laxative to promote the regulation of large bowel function, but it has as well a potential role in the treatment and prevention of bowel diseases such as diverticulosis, irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel d...

A new strain, SD12, was isolated from tannery waste polluted soil and identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa on the basis of phenotypic traits and by comparison of 16S rRNA sequences. This bacterium exhibited broad-spectrum antagonistic activity against phytopathogenic fungi. The strain produced phosphatases, cellulases, proteases, pectinases, and HCN and also retained its ability to produce hydr...