The plant based natural products have always been a rich source of bioactive molecules for drug discovery. The tender shoots of Griff., an edible medicinal plant was extracted using methanol, water and ethanol as three different solvents to study the effect of the extracting solvents and temperature on their antioxidant, antidiabetic and antibacterial properties and total phenolic and flavonoid contents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThree underutilized leafy vegetables Sarcochlamys pulcherrima (Roxb.) Gaudich (SP), Ipomoea aquatica Forssk. (IA) and Zanthoxylum rhetsa (Roxb.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe incidence of gallbladder cancer (GBC) is very high in India and it increases day by day due to population aging and changing of life style. The current study scrutinized the trend analysis of gallbladder cancer of Dibrugarh district. The registered gallbladder cancer data for the period of 14 years, i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In patients with primary hyperaldosteronism, distinguishing between unilateral and bilateral adrenal hypersecretion is critical in assessing treatment options. Adrenal venous sampling (AVS) has been advocated by some to be the gold standard for localization of the responsible lesion, but there remains a lack of consensus for the criteria and the standardization of technique.
Study Design: We performed a retrospective study of 114 patients with a biochemical diagnosis of primary hyperaldosteronism who all underwent CT scan and AVS before and after corticotropin (ACTH) stimulation.
To determine the role of superoxide (O(2)(-)) formation in the kidney during alterations in the renin-angiotensin system, we evaluated responses to the intra-arterial infusion of an O(2)(-) - scavenging agent, tempol, in the denervated kidney of anesthetized salt-depleted (SD, n=6) dogs and salt-replete (SR, n=6) dogs. As expected, basal plasma renin activity was higher in SD than in SR dogs (8.4 +/- 1.
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