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A database for anti-diabetic plants with clinical/ experimental trials |
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Authors
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Sarita Singh1*, Sunil Kumar Gupta1, Gulam Sabir1, Manish Kumar Gupta2, Prahlad Kishore Seth1
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Affiliation
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1Bioinformatics Centre, Biotech Park, Lucknow; 2Department of Bioinformatics, C. S. J. M. University, Kanpur
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Article Type
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Database | |
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Date
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Received September 30, 2009; Revised November 9, 2009; Accepted December 15, 2009; Published December 31, 2009 | |
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Abstract |
A number of plants have been described in Ayurveda and other traditional medicine for the management of diabetes. However, information about them is not easily available. Active constituents of any medicinal plant define the efficacy and safety of treatment to control hyperglycemia. We describe the database to maintain the record of medicinal plants having anti-hyperglycemic or anti-diabetic activity. The database contains information such as plant name, its geographical distribution, useful plant part, known dosage, active constituents, mechanism of action and clinical/experimental data. The database also includes information about plant raw material suppliers or manufacturers in India. The current database includes 238 plants species and 123 Indian industries using them.
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Keywords |
diabetes; medicinal plants; database; literature; anti-oxidant | |
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Citation
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Singh et al., Bioinformation 4(6): 263-268 (2009) | |
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Edited by
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P. Kangueane
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ISSN
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0973-2063
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Copyright
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Publisher
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Copyright Transfer Agreement
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The authors of published articles in Bioinformation automatically transfer the copyright to the publisher upon formal acceptance. However, the authors reserve right to use the information contained in the article for non commercial purposes.
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License
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This is an open-access article, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited.
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