Objective: To evaluate the hepatoprotective activity of Pterocarpus marsupium stem bark extracts against carbon tetrachloride (CCl 4 )-induced hepatotoxicity. Materials and methods: Hepatotoxicity was induced in male Wistar rats by intraperitoneal injection of CCl 4 (0.1 ml/kg/day for 10 days). Methanol and aqueous extracts of P. marsupium stem bark were administered to the experimental rats (2...

new sources of botanical pesticides in the management of sitotroga cerealella (olivier) infesting rice grains are indispensable in farmers’ quest towards achieving maximum protection of their rice produce. in this study, the efficacy of root and stem bark of cleistopholis patens as an insecticidal agent against s. cerealella was investigated at 28 ± 2 ºc and 75 ± 6% relative humidity. moths wer...

Background: Wood and bark are important renewable natural resources. Density is an property that used to describe wood quality for a number of end uses. However, density, proportion dimensions vary with age site, as well among within trees. The aim this study was investigate the effect diameter class, vertical position stem on density bark, volume, dry-mass thickness Lebombo ironwood (Androstac...

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Plants from Kenyan flora are traditionally used against many ailments, including cancer and related diseases. Cancer is characterized as a condition with complex signs and symptoms. Recently there are recommendations that ethnopharmacological usages such as immune and skin disorders, inflammatory, infectious, parasitic and viral diseases should be taken into accou...

  Background & Aim: Oxidative stress has been linked to the development of systemic complications in malaria infection. Recent approaches in treatment of malaria suggest that the control of oxidative stress in infected patients may be of therapeutic advantage. The stem bark and leaves of Uapaca togoensis are used locally in the treatment of various disease...

Garciniavalline (1), a novel aporphinoid alkaloid, in addition to four known alkaloids,cleistopholine (2), O-methylmoschatoline (3), (-)-oliveroline (4) and (-)-oliveridine (5), wereisolated and characterized from Garcinia Parvifolia Miq. stem bark. Structural elucidation ofthese compounds was established by spectroscopic methods. Among them, alkaloids (2) and (4)exhibited antiplasmodial activi...

Recently O’Grady argued that Quine’s “Two Dogmas” misses its mark when Carnap’s use of the analyticity distinction is understood in the light of his deflationism. While in substantial agreement with the stress on Carnap’s deflationism, I argue that O’Grady is not sufficiently sensitive to the difference between using the analyticity distinction to support deflationism, and taking a deflationary...

garciniavalline (1), a novel aporphinoid alkaloid, in addition to four known alkaloids,cleistopholine (2), o-methylmoschatoline (3), (-)-oliveroline (4) and (-)-oliveridine (5), wereisolated and characterized from garcinia parvifolia miq. stem bark. structural elucidation ofthese compounds was established by spectroscopic methods. among them, alkaloids (2) and (4)exhibited antiplasmodial activi...