The gels of Aloe species contain immunomodulatory components such as aloctin A and acemannan. Most studies on these gels were performed in in vitro cell culture systems. Although several studies examined their immunomodulatory activity in vivo, the route of administration was intraperitoneal or intramuscular. Here, we evaluated the in vivo immunomodulatory activity of processed Aloe vera gel (P...

The importance and use of herbal remedies (turmeric, tulsi, amla and aloe vera etc.) has been reviewed systematically. Turmeric (curcumin), acts as an antioxidant, antimutagenic, antiinflamatory and antimicrobial agent and protect liver against a variety of toxicants. Tulsi (eugenol) have anticancer properties, reduced blood glucose levels, total cholesterol levels and promotes immune system fu...

In the present study, an attempt has been made to evaluate the presence of antioxidant property in the alcoholic extract of Aloe vera leaf gel. Oral administration of Aloe vera gel extract at a concentration of 300 mg/kg to diabetic rats significantly decreased the levels of blood glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin and increased hemoglobin. The increased levels of lipid peroxidation and hydropero...

The positive interaction between polysaccharides with active phytochemicals found in medicinal plants may represent a strategy to create active wound dressing materials useful for skin repair. In the present work, blended membranes composed of chitosan (Cht) and aloe vera gel were prepared through the solvent casting, and were crosslinked with genipin to improve their properties. Topography, sw...

We examine how a person " s existing Web browsing experience on first language Web pages can be augmented to teach second language vocabulary. We present a prototype, ALOE, which runs inside the Firefox web browser and dynamically augments Web pages by replacing a select set of English words with their French translations. The French translations are embedded in the rich context of a Web pages ...

Some plants are known as medicinal because they contain active substances that cause certain reaction, from relenting to the cure of disease. Aloe vera Linn. and Azadirachta indica are most important and common medicinal plants. The synergistic effect from the combination of antibiotics with plant extracts against resistant bacteria leads to new ways for the treatment of infectious diseases. Sy...

for centuries, aloe vera has been used by many different cultures. the ancient greeks, the romans, the babylonians, indians and the chinese have all used aloe vera as a medicinal plant. one of the common experimental cancer models is sarcoma-180. when aloe was administered to mice bearing s-180 tumors, the tumor growth was inhibited. aloe vera is a dietary supplement and not a regulated drug. t...

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Primêre voorkoming is ’n belangrike terrein vir mediese genetika en die geneticse raadgewer vertolk hierin ’n belangrike roi. Daar is egter spesifieke indikasies vir verwysing van persone na ’n genetiese raadgewer en sy span, ’n Belangrike ontwikkeling in primêre voorkoming van genetiese afwykings is die moontlikheid van voorgeboortediagnose, deur amniosentese, van veral chromosoom afwykings, n...

CMP planarization of oxide results in excellent long-range uniformity compared to other planarization techniques but remains hampered by systematic pattern sensiti vities. In the recent literature, se veral semi-empirical or physically-based models have been proposed to explain ILD thickness pattern sensitivities in CMP, but all of these models either fail to predict key empirical results, are ...