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Asian Journal of Biological and Life sciences

Volume 4, Issue 1

2015 · pp. 1–80 · 15 articles

Volume
4
Issue
1
Published
2015
Pages
1–80
Articles
15
Sections
1
ISSN
e-ISSN: 2278-5957 | p-ISSN: 2278-747X
Journal
AJBLS

In this issue

Research Article

  1. Article

    Renan Trevisan Jost, Claudia Leite Diniz, Fernanda Santos do Carmo, Marcella Dantas, Ricardo Gass, Sebastião David dos Santos Filho, Dulciane Nunes Paiva, Nasser Ribeiro Asad, Mario Bernardo-Filho

    pp. 1–6 · 2015

    Ethnopharmacological relevance: Anethum graveolens (AG) has been used both medicinally and as an aromatic herb and spice in cookery. Some pharmacological effects have been reported such as antibacterial, hypolipidemic, a…

  2. Article

    Anuradha A, Biswajit Paul, Jagdish J

    pp. 7–12 · 2015

    Cellulose based gums (guar gum, xanthan gum, tropica starch, acacia gum, maize starch etc.) are the basic ingredients used for binding and encapsulation of the air/N2 gas bubbles in the slurry explosives. The gumming mat…

  3. Article

    Hassan T Santhosh, Mysore S Krishna

    pp. 13–19 · 2015

    The thermal environment experienced by an individual during development has a direct and indirect effect on the female preference for their mate. A great diversity of male traits such as size, colour, pigmentation, court…

  4. Article

    Sandhya Iyer, Suhas Sakhare, Caesar Sengupta, A. Velumani

    pp. 20–25 · 2015

    HbQ-India is a relatively rare hemoglobin variant seen particularly in the Indian subcontinent. In this report we present twenty cases of HbQ-India variant and two cases of HbQ India/Beta- Thalassemia detected in our lab…

  5. Article

    Milind V. Gaikwad, Prof. Yashwant K. Khillare

    pp. 26–29 · 2015

    Development of ovary and oocyte along with male gonad testis of the freshwater fishes was observed .When rearing 51 day-old Cyprinius carpio at elevated sub-lethal temperatures to (control), 28 and 34°C (experimental) wa…

  6. Article

    Homraj A. Sahare, Alka Singh, Sachin Chavan, S. L. Chawla, D. R. Bhanderi

    pp. 30–34 · 2015

    Effect of antioxidant, α-lipoic acid along with sugars as pre-storage pulsing treatment and seal packaging with polyfilms viz., HDPE(40µ), LDPE (40µ) PP (40µ) and PP(30µ) at low temperature (2°C) storage for 15 days on p…

  7. Article

    Sepideh Noorian, Ali Mohamadi Sani, Ahmad Yazdani

    pp. 35–38 · 2015

    DPPH method is commonly method for determination of antioxidant and it is a free radical. It is possible to determine the antioxidant activity by studying the change of DPPH color. Plant phenols exhibit significant antio…

  8. Article

    Anurag Chowdhury, Monoranjan Chowdhury, Abhaya Prasad Das

    pp. 39–41 · 2015

    Few specimens of Polygonum hastatosagittatum Makino, Polygonaceae, were recognized from the bulk collection of wetland plants from the natural water bodies in Duars of Himalayan biodiversity hotspot regions of West Benga…

  9. Article

    Hasan Soliman Yusufoglu, Aftab Alam, Abdullah Al-Howeemel

    pp. 42–46 · 2015

    Tamarixaphylla (Family: Tamaracaceae), commonly known as Athil and farash an evergreen tree. The natives it used for treatment of jaundice, bad evils, rheumatism, wound and abscesses. Ziziphusnummularia (Family: Rhamnace…

  10. Article

    Hasan Yusufoglu, Gamal A. Soliman, Rehab F. Abdel-Rahman, Irem Tatli-Çankaya, Saleh I. Alqasoumi, SerapArabciAnul S, Galip Akaydin

    pp. 47–53 · 2015

    The aim of this study was to investigate the hepatoprotective effect of Allium paniculatum L. (A. paniculatum) and Capparisspinosa L. (C. spinosa) extracts in rats. Adult rats were divided into seven groups (n=6). The 1s…

  11. Article

    Marjan Anvarhosseini, Ali Mohamadi Sani

    pp. 53–58 · 2015

    In recent years, along with the growing purchasing power of the population, there has been an increasing demand for high quality product. The object of this study was the identification fraud and animal species (cattle, …

  12. Article

    Kuppahalli Venkataramaiah Keshavaiah, Kumbaradoddi M. Devaraju

    pp. 59–64 · 2015

    An experiment conducted at Zonal agricultural research station, V.C.Farm, Mandya with wide row planting of 5 feet spacing in comparison with conventional 3 feet spacing and 20 per cent reduced seed rate with wide row spa…

  13. Article

    S. K. Sarkar, K. Chakrobarty, M. N. Moitra

    pp. 65–70 · 2015

    Soil samples were collected from four different sites - an agricultural field, a river basin, a brick field and a forest floor located in the alluvial plains of northern part of Bengal. Soil acarines dominated the region…

  14. Article

    Ashok Pralhad Chaudhari, Nayansingh Jaswantsingh Thakor

    pp. 71–75 · 2015

    Liquid from Cashew Nut shell is generally extracted by three methods namely, mechanical, roasting and solvent extraction. The expeller (mechanical) process of oil extraction is more feasible for adoption on industrial sc…

  15. Article

    Fahad I Al-Saikhan, Ramadan I. Al-Shdefat, Mohamed A Abd-Elaziz, Elsadig H. Kh. Adam, Fakhrul Ahsan

    pp. 76–80 · 2015

    Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a disease of the pulmonary arteries and arterioles that increases the pulmonary vascular resistance and pulmonary artery pressure. Aviptadil, a vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)…