infectious diseases are responsible for thousands of worldwide early death .many commercial antibiotics have been used to control human's infectious diseases all over the world. calotropis procera linn a wild growing plant of asclepiadaecae family is known to possess multifarious medicinal properties. total 80 non repetitive clinical e. coli strains recovered during 7 month, and were screened f...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Calotropis procera and Calotropis gigantea, originally from warm parts of Africa and Asia, are now pan-tropical and in ecological terms considered an indicator of overgrazed, disturbed lands; they grow successfully in dry areas. Variations in water relations, morphology and photosynthesis of the two species growing in the same habitat were studied to assess possible mechanis...

In the present investigation various bioassays were conducted to evaluate the anti-termite efficacy of plant latex based formulations to control population of Indian white termite in subtropical soil. Results reveal that crude latex, its fractions and combinatorial fractions have shown very high toxicity against O. obesus. The LD50 values for different latex fractions of 24 h were in a range of...

Calotropis gigantea R.Br. (Asclepiadaceae) a widely growing plant has been reported to possess number of medicinal properties and other purposes. Since ancient times plants have been used as source of therapeutic agents. Plants are playing a significant role in the indigenous system of medicine to combat diseases. The traditional medicine involves the use of different plant extracts or bioactiv...

Calotropis procera Ait. (Family Asclepiadaceae) is a species widely used for the treatment of various diseases including sickle cell disease in Burkina Faso. It enter in the composition of FACA, drug developed by Institute for Research in Health Sciences, Burkina Faso and used in the treatment of sickle cell disease. The objective of this study was to evaluate the toxic effects at short and lon...

A new pregnanone, named calotropone (1), was isolated from the EtOH extract of the roots of Calotropis gigantea L. together with a known cardiac glycoside. The structures were elucidated by a study of their physical and spectral data. Compounds 1 and 2 displayed inhibitory effects towards chronic myelogenous leukemia K562 and human gastric cancer SGC-7901 cell lines.

Low concentration of raw flower juice of Calotropis porcera (Asclepiadecae) and seed dust of Nerium oleander (Apocynacae) significantly delayed the egg to adult development of two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch, for three successive generations under laboratory trial. The flower juice of C. porcera was found more effective than the seed dust of N. oleander in delaying the develop...