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Rhus semialata Murr. (Anacardiaceae) is a deciduous tree of north eastern India. The fruit of this plant is traditionally used to control diarrhoea and dysentery. The Present study was undertaken to evaluate anti-diarrhoeal potency of methanol extract of fruits of R. semialatalts indicated that the methanol extract of the fruits of R. semialata possesses significant anti-diarrhoeal effect and substantiated the use of this herbal remedy as a non-specific treatment for diarrhoea in folk medicine
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Antidiarrheals , Diphenoxylate , Plant Extracts , Rats , RhusABSTRACT
Synthetic analogues of a monoterpenic fragment of aplasmomycin were tested for their antimalarial activity in Plasmodium falciparum culture in vitro. The antimalarial activities of these agents were evaluated in chloroquine sensitive strains. Parasite growth was inhibited in a dose dependent manner in the presence of the synthetic compounds (3-9).
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Animals , Anti-Bacterial Agents/chemistry , Antimalarials/pharmacology , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , Mass Spectrometry , Peptides , Plasmodium falciparum/drug effects , Spectrophotometry, Infrared , Terpenes/chemistrySubject(s)
Animals , Cattle/parasitology , Feeding Behavior , Host-Parasite Interactions , Humans , India , Insect Vectors , PhlebotomusSubject(s)
Animals , Ecology , Female , Insect Vectors , Larva , Leishmaniasis, Visceral/transmission , Oviposition , Phlebotomus/parasitology , Soil/parasitologyABSTRACT
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a hematologic malignancy arising from an abnormal hemopoietic stem cell. Our earlier studies have identified defects in spectrin tetramer formation and organization of cytoskeletal proteins (Basu et al., Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1988, 121-126); and decreased ankyrin binding to ankyrin-depleted vesicles in CML patients. These may lead to clustering of band 3 and increased binding of autologous IgG. This has now been explored by studying the binding of 125I-protein A to normal and CML erythrocytes. There is increased binding of 125I-protein A in CML erythrocytes compared to normal erythrocytes. Since binding of autologous IgG is responsible for removal of erythrocytes from the circulation, the above findings suggest that CML erythrocytes are likely to be prematurely removed from the circulation, accounting for anemia.