Background: This study has been undertaken to find out the possible radioprotective potential of the Alstonia scholaris extract (ASE). Materials and Methods: For experimental study, healthy Swiss albino male mice were selected from an inbred colony and divided in four groups. Group I (normal) did not receive any treatment. Group II was orally supplemented ASE once daily at the dose of ...

A major ice storm struck Georgia and the Carolinas in February of 2014, damaging or destroying hundreds of thousands of hectares of timber worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Losses were particularly severe in pine plantations in west-central South Carolina, including many on the Savannah River Site (SRS). An array of paired, mid-rotation loblolly (Pinus taeda L.) and longleaf (Pinus palustr...

The paper highlights some of the most important Ayurvedic medicinal plants of North Eastern India having anticancer potential. A brief review of distribution and pharmacological study (both in vivo and in vitro) of ten Ayurvedic medicinal plants of the region published by various researchers is illustrated in this paper. The medicinal plants discussed here are Enhydra Fluctuans Lour (Sanskrit: ...

The effects of methanolic extract of Alstonia boonei stem bark was studied on sperm characteristics, fertility, body and organ weights of adult albino rats. Oral administration of 50 and 200 mg/kg b.w/animal/day of the extract for 1, 2, 4, and 12 weeks caused duration and dose-dependent changes in the body weights, organ weights and sperm characteristics. However, there was a gradual increase i...

We examine recent evidence from the luminosity-redshift relation of Type Ia Supernovae for the ∼ 3σ detection of a “Hubble bubble” – a departure of the local value of the Hubble constant from its globally averaged value (Jha et al. 2007). By comparing the MLCS2k2 fits used in that study to the results from other light-curve fitters applied to the same data, we demonstrate that this is related t...