Effects of Dietary Anthraquinone Extract on Growth,Metabolic and Haemato-immunological Responses of Cirrhinus mrigala (Hamilton, 1822) Fingerlings

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - A 60 days feeding trial was conducted to study the effects of dietary supplementation of...     

Direct diagnosis of Leishmania species on serosity materials punctured from cutaneous leishmaniasis patients using PCR-RFLP

This study was aimed at identifying the Leishmania species using serosity materials punctured from skin lesions of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) patients by using internal transcribed spacer1 (ITS1) polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). We used the PCR-RFLP on 60 parasitological confirmed CL patients who referred to leishmaniasis laboratory from the School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The PCR-RFLP could correctly detect 51 Leishmania species of the 60 confirmed positive specimens, where all the other 10 parasitological (microscopy and culture) negative samples that were prepared from other bacterial- and fungal-infected lesions had negative results. The results also revealed that Leishmania major was the dominant species (53.3%). This study suggests that the PCR-RFLP assay with serosity materials punctured from CL patients using Hae III enzyme is useful for the rapid identification of Leishmania species.     

Iron Homeostasis in Rice: Deficit and Excess

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - Rice is the major food crop grown in all over the world mitigating 60–70% requirement of calories....     

Genetic Diversity in Drumstick of Andaman Islands and Their Relatedness with Probable Introduction Sites from Mainland India

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - The study investigated genetic diversity in Moringa oleifera Lam. samples (63) from nine islands in Andaman...     

Comparative Study on Structure of Exopolysaccharide and Capsular Polysaccharide Produced by Southern Ocean Origin Pseudoalteromonas sp. MB-16

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - A comparative study on the basic structural characteristics of exopolysaccharide (EPS) and capsular...     

Novel Green Synthesis of Combinational Silver Nanoparticles using Jatropha integerrima for Dengue Vector Control and Cytotoxicity Assessment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - This study highlights a novel approach for synthesizing silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) using combination of...     

Combined Hepatoprotective Activity of Murraya koenigii and Phyllanthus niruri Extracts Against Paracetamol Induced Hepatotoxicity in Alcoholic Rats

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - The present study elucidated the hepatoprotective activity of combination of alcohol water extracts (AWEs) of...     

Bioremediation and Biomass Production with the Green Microalga Chlorococcum humicola and Textile Mill Effluent (TE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - The study aimed at possible bioremediation of textile mill effluent (TE) and simultaneous production of...     

Role of Nanocurcumin as a Surface Modifying Agent with Excellent Preventive Effect on Device-Related CoNS Infections

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - The study focused on the analysis of efficiency of curcumin and nanocurcumin (NC) against biofilm-forming...     

Deoxyribonucleic Acid Barcoding of Some Indian Coelogyninae (Orchidaceae)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - Subtribe Coelogyninae (Epidendroideae, Orchidaceae) comprises of 16 genera. The present study is undertaken...     

Effect of Nickel Supplementation on Liver and Kidney Function Test and Protein Metabolism in Growing Cattle

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - This study was conducted to assess the nickel (Ni) content of commonly available feedstuffs and their...     

Green Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) Using Cissus quadrangularis: Characterization,Antimicrobial and Anticancer Studies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - In the present study, zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) were synthesized using the stem aqueous extracts of...     

A New Approach of Canopy Temperature based Irrigation Scheduling of Wheat in Humid Subtropical Climate of India

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - The aim of the study is to develop a new canopy temperature based index named plant stress index (PSI) as an...     

Seasonal Dynamics and Light Use Efficiency of Major Mangrove Species Over Indian Region

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - The present study aims to estimate the light use efficiency (LUE) of the major mangrove species of Pichavaram...     

Tree Diversity and Ecosystem Carbon Stock Assessment in Nambor Wildlife Sanctuary,Assam

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - A study was carried out to assess tree diversity, forest carbon stock and carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration...     

Prosopis farcta Extract Potentiates the Scolicidal Activity Against Protoscolices of Hydatid Cysts

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - This study aimed to assess the efficacy of methanolic extract of Prosopis farcta (P. farcta) against...     

Readability and information density in biomedical research

OBJECTIVE: This study was performed in order to compare the lexicosyntactic readability, and the information density in the informed consent forms used in biomedical research, in comparison with standard scientific texts dedicated to the general population. In addition, we studied whether there is a correlation between information readability and density. METHODS: Fifteen informed consent forms, 6 articles from "Sciences et Avenir" and 6 articles from "Sciences et Vie Junior" were analyzed. The lexicosyntactic readability was calculated using the Flesh score, and the information density using the number of information bits related to the number of words. RESULTS: The lexicosyntactic readability was lower in the informed consent forms (25, 17-32) compared with "Sciences et Avenir" (32, 29-38), but even higher in "Sciences et Vie Junior" (42, 38-57). Conversely, the information density was similar in "Sciences et Vie Junior" (0.24, [0.21-0.27]) and the informed consent forms (0.24, [0.22-0.26]), but higher in "Sciences et Avenir" (0.32, [0.26-0.38]). CONCLUSION: Informed consent forms are less readable, but paradoxically less dense than scientific papers dedicated to the general population. There is no correlation between density and readability.     

Enzymatic Efficiency and Genotypic Differences for Nitrogen Assimilation in Wheat

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - The present study was conducted to evaluate the potential of nitrogen applied in soil (90, 120 and...     

Post-Harvest Preservation of Whole Kinnow Fruit Using Betel Leaf Extract Coating

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - The present study aimed at preserving Kinnow using betel leaf (Piper betle L.) extract. The purpose was to...     

Effect of Feeding Tanniferous Oak Leaves on Nutrient Utilization,Serum Mineral Profile and Biochemical Indices in Goats

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences - A 120 days growth study was conducted to assess the effect of tanniniferous oak leaves (Quercus...