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SCIENTIFIC VALIDATION OF AYURVEDIC CONCEPT OF PRAKRITI (PSYCHO-SOMATIC CONSTITUTION) - CURRENT EVIDENCES
Ayurveda is an ancient Indian healing system with personalized approach documented and practiced since ages. Ayurveda is not merely a system of medicine, in a broader sense it is the āScience of Holistic Living and Art of Natural Healingā. Ayurveda has a unique way of classifying human population based on individual constitution or Prakriti. Ayurveda's Tridosha theory identifies principles of movement (Vata), metabolism (Pitta), and structure (Kapha) as discrete phenotypic groupings.Ā As per this system, every individual is born with his or her own basic constitution, which to a great extent regulates inter-individual variability in susceptibility to diseases and response to external environment, diet and drugs.Ā In the realm of modern predictive medicine, efforts are being directed towards capturing disease phenotypes with greater precision for successful identification of markers for prospective disease conditions. Due to contemporary technological advancements, newer approaches are emerging in different sciences which are beyond their frontiers, of which Precision medicine is newer one. It is an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. It seems to be the continuation or advancement of personalized predictive medicine. In this context different study discussed in the article provides the identification of a genomic link to the theory ofĀ PrakritiĀ led to a search for possible classification of people on their PrakritiĀ based on their genetic makeup. These studies could eventually lead to a personalization of medical practice on the basis ofĀ PrakritiĀ as is conceived in Ayurveda. This reappraisal of Ayurveda in light of fundamental science and its advances would be immensely helpful to perceive Ayurveda in true scientific fervor
Symptomatic āHā Type Duplex Gallbladder
A case of ductular type duplex gallbladder is presented that was diagnosed by magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography and managed by laparoscopy
Plant defense elicitors: plant fitness versus wheat stem sawfly
The wheat stem sawfly (WSS), Cephus cinctus Norton, is an important wheat pest in the Northern Great Plains of the USA. No single control measure effectively suppresses WSS damage. This study provides information on the effects on the WSS adult settling preference behavior on wheat plants under laboratory conditions from treatment with both synthetic plant defense elicitors (ActigardĀ® and cis-jasmone) and a botanical insecticide (AzadirachtinĀ®). In addition, field experiments were performed to determine whether these chemicals impact the WSS fitness (larval mortality and larval body weight), winter wheat plant fitness (infestation, stem lodging, yield, and quality), adult population of WSS and Bracon spp., and larval parasitism levels. Our lab results showed that there were no significant differences in adult settling behavior on plants exposed separately to each chemical and control. In contrast, when adults were exposed simultaneously to treated and untreated plants, there was a significant reduction in the percentage of adults settling on ActigardĀ® and AzadirachtinĀ® treated plants compared to plants sprayed with water in the same cage. However, in field situations, regardless of application timing and field location, none of the chemicals significantly reduced adult population or stems damage. The exception was two times applications of ActigardĀ® had significantly lower WSS infested stem damage levels at 30 days after initial treatment applications at Knees and 50 days at Choteau locations compared to control, but without effect at the Conrad location. The field study indicated that two times applications of ActigardĀ® significantly increased diapausing larval mortality percentages and lowered stem lodging levels compared to untreated controls at Knees and Choteau locations, while no effects at Conrad location. Larval body weight was significantly lower in plots treated with ActigardĀ® at Knees and Conrad, but no effects at Choteau. No significant differences were found in wheat yield and quality in plots treated with chemicals and controls at any location. Bracon spp. adult population and parasitism levels were not negatively affected by the use of chemicals. In conclusion, this study offers insights on what treatments should be emphasized in more detail despite variable findings
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Phytochemical Screening and Antimicrobial Activity of the Leaf Extract of Mirabilis jalapa Against Pathogenic Microorganisms
Investigation of the phytochemical constituents and antimicrobial activity of the leaf extracts of Mirabilis jalapa were carried out using acetone, chloroform, ethanol and methanol. These extracts were subjected to screening of preliminary phytochemical tests. Phytochemical analysis showed the presence of alkaloids, flavanoids, phenols, glycosides, tannins, saponins and lignins. The methanol extract exhibited the largest zone of inhibition (21mm in dia with 500Ī¼g/disc extract) against Staphylococcus aureus and the highest inhibition of fungal radial mycelial growth (97.5% with 500Ī¼g/ml medium) against Aspergillus flavus. The methanol extract exhibited the lowest MIC against Staphylococcus aureus (39 Ī¼g/ml) and Aspergillus flavus (45Ī¼g/ml). It appeared that M. jalapa could be a potential natural source of new antimicrobial agent.Keywords: Mirabilis jalapa, leaf extract, phytochemicals, antimicrobial activity
HT-FED2004-56013 MODELLING OF SLURRY-HANDLING PIPING ELEMENT UNDER INTERFERENCE CONDITIONS
ABSTRACT The paper presents a new approach to predict the two-phase performance of jet-pumps under interference conditions. We limit our study mainly to diffuser and transport regions of the jet pump. The five essential pre-requisites which form the backbone of our approach are a fairly generalized and accurate approach to (i) solid-fluid interaction, (ii) particle diffusion under generalized flow field, (iii) friction factor-Reynolds number equation, (iv) solid-fluid flow through ducts and (v) mixing of primary and secondary jets using the approach of Wang et al
Towards an understating of signal transduction protein interaction networks
Protein network analysis has witnessed a number of advancements in the past for understanding molecular characteristics for
important network topologies in biological systems. The signaling pathway regulates cell cycle progression and anti-apoptotic
molecules. This pathway is also involved in maintaining cell survival by modulating the activity of apoptosis through RAS, P13K,
AKT and BAD activities. The importance of protein-protein interactions to improve usability of the interactome by scoring and
ranking interaction data for proteins in signal transduction networks is illustrated using available data and resources
Genetic Evidence on the Origins of Indian Caste Populations
This is the published version, also available here: http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.173301.The origins and affinities of the ā¼1 billion people living on the subcontinent of India have long been contested.
This is owing, in part, to the many different waves of immigrants that have influenced the genetic structure of
India. In the most recent of these waves, Indo-European-speaking people from West Eurasia entered India from
the Northwest and diffused throughout the subcontinent. They purportedly admixed with or displaced
indigenous Dravidic-speaking populations. Subsequently they may have established the Hindu caste system and
placed themselves primarily in castes of higher rank. To explore the impact of West Eurasians on contemporary
Indian caste populations, we compared mtDNA (400 bp of hypervariable region 1 and 14 restriction site
polymorphisms) and Y-chromosome (20 biallelic polymorphisms and 5 short tandem repeats) variation in ā¼265
males from eight castes of different rank to ā¼750 Africans, Asians, Europeans, and other Indians. For maternally
inherited mtDNA, each caste is most similar to Asians. However, 20%ā30% of Indian mtDNA haplotypes
belong to West Eurasian haplogroups, and the frequency of these haplotypes is proportional to caste rank, the
highest frequency of West Eurasian haplotypes being found in the upper castes. In contrast, for paternally
inherited Y-chromosome variation each caste is more similar to Europeans than to Asians. Moreover, the
affinity to Europeans is proportionate to caste rank, the upper castes being most similar to Europeans,
particularly East Europeans. These findings are consistent with greater West Eurasian male admixture with castes
of higher rank. Nevertheless, the mitochondrial genome and the Y chromosome each represents only a single
haploid locus and is more susceptible to large stochastic variation, bottlenecks, and selective sweeps. Thus, to
increase the power of our analysis, we assayed 40 independent, biparentally inherited autosomal loci (1 LINE-1
and 39 Alu elements) in all of the caste and continental populations (ā¼600 individuals). Analysis of these data
demonstrated that the upper castes have a higher affinity to Europeans than to Asians, and the upper castes are
significantly more similar to Europeans than are the lower castes. Collectively, all five datasets show a trend
toward upper castes being more similar to Europeans, whereas lower castes are more similar to Asians. We
conclude that Indian castes are most likely to be of proto-Asian origin with West Eurasian admixture resulting
in rank-related and sex-specific differences in the genetic affinities of castes to Asians and Europeans
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