Volume 4, Issue 1

Research Article

1. Article

   Assessment of Physicochemical Parameters of an Anethum graveolens Aqueous Extract and the Effects on the Labeling of Blood Constituents with Technetium-99m

   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 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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

   Biodegradation of Cellulose Containing Gum Product Utilized as Salt Binders and Fuels in the Slurry Explosives by Bacillus thuringiensis (BAB-2592)

   Anuradha A, Biswajit Paul, Jagdish J

   pp. 7–12 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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

   Effect of Rearing Temperature on Offspring Fitness in Drosophila bipectinata

   Hassan T Santhosh, Mysore S Krishna

   pp. 13–19 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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

   Incidental Detection of HbQ-India during Beta-Thalassemia Screening

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

   pp. 20–25 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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

   Temperature Effect on Gonads of Freshwater Fish Cyprinus carpio

   Milind V. Gaikwad, Prof. Yashwant K. Khillare

   pp. 26–29 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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

   Post Storage Physiology and Vase life of low Temperature Stored Tuberose Cut Spikes as Influenced by α-Lipoic Acid and Polyfilm Packaging

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

   pp. 30–34 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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

   Evaluation of Phenolic Compounds and DPPH Inhibition of two Iran Endemic Species from Vincetoxicum Genus

   Sepideh Noorian, Ali Mohamadi Sani, Ahmad Yazdani

   pp. 35–38 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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

   Polygonum Hastatosagittatum Makino (Polygonaceae): A New Distributional Record for India

   Anurag Chowdhury, Monoranjan Chowdhury, Abhaya Prasad Das

   pp. 39–41 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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

   Pharmacognostic and Preliminary Phytochemical Standardization of Tamarixaphylla and Ziziphusnummulariagrowing in Saudi Arabia

   Hasan Soliman Yusufoglu, Aftab Alam, Abdullah Al-Howeemel

   pp. 42–46 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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

    The Potential Hepatoprotective Activity of Allium paniculatum and Capparisspinosa on Thioacetamide induced Hepatotoxicity in Rats

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

    pp. 47–53 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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

    Production of Multiplex PCR Kit for Fraud Detection in Dairy Products

    Marjan Anvarhosseini, Ali Mohamadi Sani

    pp. 53–58 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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

    Wide Row Planting In Sugarcane – New Vistas for Augmenting Cane Production

    Kuppahalli Venkataramaiah Keshavaiah, Kumbaradoddi M. Devaraju

    pp. 59–64 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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

    On regional variability of major soil microarthropod groups at four different edaphic systems in the northern alluvial plains of Bengal, India

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

    pp. 65–70 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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

    Extraction of CNSL using screw press

    Ashok Pralhad Chaudhari, Nayansingh Jaswantsingh Thakor

    pp. 71–75 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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

    Development and Validation of RP-HPLC Method for Quantitation of Aviptadil Acetate and its Degradation Products

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

    pp. 76–80 · DOI: · Published 30 April 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)…