BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Mosquitoes increased resistance to insecticides, and environmental concerns about the use of insecticides, pose a major challenge in the search for new molecules to deplete and incapacitate mosquito populations. Plants are the valuable source as practices consisting in exploiting plant materials as repellents, and are still in wide use throughout developing countries. Th...

The petroleum ether, chloroform, methanol, and aqueous extracts of Heliotropium indicum Linn. (Family: Boraginaceae) were separately evaluated for their wound healing activity in rats using excision (normal and infected), incision, and dead space wound models. The effects of test samples on the rate of wound healing were assessed by the rate of wound closure, period of epithelialisation, wound ...

A release of (14)CO(2) not related to ornithine decarboxylase activity was found in crude leaf extracts from Lycopersicon esculentum, Avena sativa, and especially from the pyrrolizidine alkaloid-bearing Heliotropium angiospermum when incubated with [1-(14)C]- or [U-(14)C]ornithine. The total (14)CO(2) produced was about 5- to 100-fold higher than that due to ornithine decarboxylase activities c...

The presence of the West African manatee, Trichechus senegalensis in a semi-wild holding facility Little Stream Farm, Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area, presented an opportunity to study directly, aspects their biology, which hitherto were little known. This was conducted identify plant food preferences and feeding behaviour as reflection what may approximate activities wild. selected plant...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are nowadays real health problems in the world. High blood pressure is one of most important risk factors for CVD and affecting more people Benin. The objective our work to evaluate safety efficacy leaves five plants used treatment hypertension Acute toxicity was evaluated on wistar rats which orally administered a single dose 2000 mg/kg body weight hydro-ethanolic...