diabetes mellitus is one of the most common diseases affecting the endocrine system. the prevalence of diabetes mellitus will be increasing in the human population. it is a metabolic disease characterized by chronic escalation of blood glucose and disrupted metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins. this was an experimental study conducted on 40 male wistar rats. this study was carried out...

In the current Shenzhen Code (Turland & al. in Regnum Veg. 159. 2018), one might infer from last sentence of Art. H.6.2, which covers nothogeneric names bigeneric hybrids that are condensed formulas (“The use a hyphen instead or addition to connecting vowel is treated as an error be corrected by deletion hyphen.”), this rule applies only hybrids. When sentence, was new Code, originally proposed...

Oeceoclades maculata (Lindl.) Lindl. (= Eulophia Rchb.f.) has a broad native range across tropical Africa and Madagascar. Here, we document the spread of O. in New World, using published records, herbarium specimens, photographs posted online, our own collections. The earliest known World record is from Brazil dating to before 1790. Until 1962, was only South America. Since then, this species n...

objective(s) as an important class of natural products, coumarins exhibit many biological activities and the diversity of their bioactivity is so huge that the pharmacological promiscuity has been applied on their case. oxypeucedanine also named as prangolarin is a linear furanocoumarin with an oxygenated prenylated substitution at c-5 of the nucleus. to our knowledge, there are few reports on ...

The present studies report in vitro propagation of a rare and medicinally important orchid Vanda testacea through foliar explants. Explants were cultured on Mitra et al. (M) medium and its combinations with cytokinins (BAP, Kn 1 mgl each) and auxin (NAA 1 mgl) individually and in combination for initiation of regeneration response, proliferation of regenerants and subsequent development of plan...