noncommunicable diseases pose a real threat to and their incidence is forecast to increase in both developed and developing countries; and, diabetes, obesity, and related complications are predicted to pose a great burden on health care systems all across the world. however, current used conventional medications and surgical interventions fall short of effectively controlling the rampant spread...

Plant species that are unintentionally exposed to pesticides are treated as non-target plants Non-target plant effects are any direct or indirect effects that cause significant change in the survival, health or reproduction of non-target plant species or cause a change in plant community attributes. This review presents responses of several non-target plants to pesticide contamination. Non-targ...

Expression profiling analysis offers great opportunities for the identification of novel molecular targets, drug discovery, development, and validation. The beauty of microarray analysis of gene expression is that it can be used to screen the expression of tens of thousands of genes in parallel and to identify appropriate molecular targets for therapeutic intervention. Toward identifying novel ...

Plasma membrane H+-ATPase is a major integral membrane protein with a role in various physiological processes including abiotic stress response. To study the effect of NaCl on the expression pattern of a gene encoding the plasma membrane H+-ATPase, an experiment was carried out in a completely random design with three replications. A pair of specific primers was designed based on the sequence o...

Abstract Pesticides are agrochemical used to increase agronomic production and higher economic profit. However, these chemical pesticides could be persistent in soil and water, collective in silt or bio-aggregates in biota relying upon their dissolvability, prompting various kinds of natural contamination. These pesticides have also shown detrimental effects such as phytotoxicity, genotox...

The biological assessment of impacts of transgenic plants on non-target organisms is, in general, based on a simple comparison, e.g. between transgenic Bt-plants and nontransgenic plants lacking Bt. For the present investigation, we chose a novel biological system to assess the impact of a transgene on non-target organisms. A comparison was made between the original cultivar and two transgenic ...