adjuvant induced arthritis is a chronic crippling, skeleton-muscular disorder having nearest approximation to human rheumatoid arthritis for which there is currently no medicine available effecting a permanent cure. even modern drugs used for the amelioration of the symptoms, offer only temporary relief and also produce severe side effects. in the indigenous system of medicine, wood of premna s...

This study aims at presenting a computational model of visual search including a visual, a semantic and a memory process in order to simulate human behavior during information seeking. We implemented the memory process, which is the most important part of the model based on the Variable Memory Model (Arani, Karwan, & G., 1984; Horowitz, 2006). To compare model and humans, we designed two experi...

There is a growing inventory of dilatation hardware at the disposal of the interventional cardiologist. The purpose of this review is to compare the distinguishing features of current and anticiputed equipment which should be considered in the selection of hardware for performing corona y angioplasty (PTCA). New guiding catheters designed to improve “back-up” support for di#icult anatomic varia...

Ethanolic extract of root and root derived callus extracts of Premna serratifolia L were investigated against paracetamol induced oxidative stress and hepatotoxicity in blood and liver of male albino rats. The root explants were cultured on MS medium supplemented with various combination and concentration of plant growth regulators. The best callus biomass was observed from the MS medium supple...

The title compound {systematic name: 5,6,10-trihydr-oxy-7-iso-propyl-1,1,4a-trimethyl-2,3,4,4a-tetra-hydro-phenanthren-9(1H)-one}, C(20)H(26)O(4), is a diterpenoid which was isolated from the roots of Premna obtusifolia. The mol-ecule has three fused six-membered rings; the cyclo-hexane ring is in a twisted-boat conformation and the cyclo-hexene ring adopts a sofa form. Intra-molecular O-H⋯O hy...

Treatment with a mixture of Cyperus rotundus, Iris versicolor and Holoptelia integrifolia resulted in a rapid decrease of weight in and ad libitum fed obese rats. Body fat and Fat: Protein ratio were much less while food consumption, body protein, energy expenditure and metabolic rate were more in mixture treated obese rats than in food restricted obese. A mixture of these plant preparations, t...

Plant lectins are proteins that possess at least one non-catalytic domain, which could reversibly bind to specific monosaccharides or oligosaccharides. The important roles played by plant lectins in immune regulation, signaling pathways, and plant defense could be attributed to their specific binding activities with carbohydrates. In this study, a Pinellia integrifolia lectin gene, designated p...