The fruits of Ziziphus jujuba, known as jujube or Chinese date, are being consumed all around the world because of their health benefits, as both food and herbal medicine. Traditionally, one of the main functions of jujube, as described in herbal medicine, is to benefit our brain by calming down the mind and improving quality of sleep. Here, the activities of jujubes on nervous system are summa...

Low cost activated carbon, prepared from saw dust of Ziziphus jujube by chemical activation with phosphoric acid (H3PO4) was characterized and utilized for the removal of Cr (VI) ions from aqueous solutions under different conditions of solution pH, contact time, initial concentration, carbon dose and temperature. Adsorption of Cr (VI) ions was found highly pH dependent that increased with decr...

Many hepatoprotective herbal preparations have been recommended in alternative system of medicine for the treatment of hepatic disorders. There are few or no systemic studies have been done on protective efficacy of Ziziphus rotundifolia (Rhamnaceae) to treat liver diseases. In this study, hepatoprotective and antioxidant activity of ethanolic extracts was evaluated against CCl4-induced liver d...

Wherever humans have lived, they have made berries a part of their diet. Most of these have never been developed beyond local markets but some have become economically important crops. In this paper, the berry crops have been divided into four groups based on their current international popularity and potential future value. An overview of the status of development, current production, and futu...

Six species of lesser known edible fruits from Western Ghats of India were analysed for their anthocyanin, ascorbic acid, total phenolics and flavonoid levels and their antioxidant activities using the DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) method. The data obtained shown the anthocyanin, ascorbic acid, total phenolics and flavonoid levels were significantly higher in the methanol extract of Maho...

Wood carving in various purposes and uniformly as an expression of art prevailed in every human society since the beginning of the Indus valley civilization or back to the centuries. It is closely attached to the different aspects of human life. A number of references can be traced in the civilization of Harappa that they used timbers to construct roofs of their abodes which were flat and made ...

A study was undertaken to analyses the heritability, correlation and path co-efficient for growth and fruit characters in twenty ber (Ziziphus mauritiana Lam) genotypes grown at Fruit Research Farm under Horticulture Research Centre, BARI during January to June 2006. The highest range of variation was recorded in fruit weight (6.63-44.72 g), followed by yield per plant (14.88 64.99 kg), stone w...

BACKGROUND Ziziphus jujuba Mill. is nutritious and used as food and medicine for more than two thousand years. It has many pharmacological effects, such as elimination of fatigue, dilation of blood vessels, etc. The polysaccharide in it is one of the bioactive substances. In this paper, the ultrasonic extraction effects on the yield and activity of polysaccharide were studied. RESULTS The opt...

After fixing a marking (V,W ) of a quasi-Fuchsian punctured torus group G, the complex length λV and the complex twist τV,W parameters define a holomorphic embedding of the quasi-Fuchsian space QF of punctured tori into C2. It is called the complex Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates of QF . For c ∈ C, let Qγ,c be the affine subspace of C2 defined by the linear equation λV = c. Then we can consider the...

V.M. Abazov, B. Abbott, M. Abolins, B.S. Acharya, M. Adams, T. Adams, E. Aguilo, M. Ahsan, G.D. Alexeev, G. Alkhazov, A. Alton, G. Alverson, G.A. Alves, L.S. Ancu, T. Andeen, M.S. Anzelc, M. Aoki, Y. Arnoud, M. Arov, M. Arthaud, A. Askew, B. Åsman, O. Atramentov, C. Avila, J. BackusMayes, F. Badaud, L. Bagby, B. Baldin, D.V. Bandurin, S. Banerjee, E. Barberis, A.-F. Barfuss, P. Bargassa, P. Bar...