M. Arshad, Nelofar Ansari, M. Umar, F. Arshad, M. Adil, Noman Dilbar, Jaam Rehmatullah, Muhammad Sheeraz Javed, R. N. Abbas
{"title":"A Review on Wheat Management, Strategies, Current Problems and Future Perspectives","authors":"M. Arshad, Nelofar Ansari, M. Umar, F. Arshad, M. Adil, Noman Dilbar, Jaam Rehmatullah, Muhammad Sheeraz Javed, R. N. Abbas","doi":"10.36348/sjls.2021.v06i01.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36348/sjls.2021.v06i01.004","url":null,"abstract":"Wheat, also known as Triticum Aestivum that is the predominant ingredient in the human diet. Weed indirectly affects the production of wheat, harboring the crop by challenging the crop for large pests, management of water intervention, reduction of grain input and efficiency, and rising processing costs. The faster growth in a thick, enclosed canopy is facilitated by a canopy, the general mechanism for improving cereal crop competition over weed species. Crop geometry is an old discipline in agriculture. It is referring to the plant's spatial arrangement and specifies the layout of the population of crops. Without concurrent grain yield loss, non-uniform geometry, such as seedling tossing, is aimed at minimizing labor intensity. Chemical and hand weeding has also been used in wheat as a weed control method. Herbicide incorporation and hand weeding greatly reduced the dry weight of weeds relative to dry weight in untreated parcels. Crop tailoring is typically calculated in three ways as a function of competition: tillering output rate, final tillering number, and tillering economy. Additional studies will help to explain the essence of the relationships of characteristics and skills in locations and seasons.","PeriodicalId":219819,"journal":{"name":"Haya: The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121183085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Congenital Malformation among Children with Cerebral Palsy, And Gender Differences in El- ALBYDA Hospital in LIBYA","authors":"Kawakeb Saad, Mabsutah. O. Saeid","doi":"10.36348/sjls.2021.v06i01.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36348/sjls.2021.v06i01.001","url":null,"abstract":"Cerebral palsy (CP) is a major neurodevelopmental disorder, presently estimated to affect approximately 1 in 500 children. As a clinical diagnosis, the etiology of the syndrome varies and is often unknown. The objective of this study is to determine the pattern and the contributing factors of CP among Libyans children. This was a descriptive hospital-based study conducted over a period of six years in ALBYDA Central Hospital – LIBYA. One hundred and eight patients of CP were enrolled, of whom 70 (65%) were males and 38 (35%) were females. Spastic quadriplegic CP was the most common type and epilepsy was the most problem associated with CP. Birth asphyxia, prematurity neonatal meningitis, kernicterus and brain malformation were the main contributing factors.","PeriodicalId":219819,"journal":{"name":"Haya: The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences","volume":"325 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115871239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shiekh Zahoor Ahmad, A. Iqbal, H. Quraishi, Asma Afzal, Afrooza Jan, Naquibul Islam, S. A. Rather
{"title":"Clinical Interpretation of Hypothyroidism in Unani Medicine","authors":"Shiekh Zahoor Ahmad, A. Iqbal, H. Quraishi, Asma Afzal, Afrooza Jan, Naquibul Islam, S. A. Rather","doi":"10.36348/sjls.2021.v06i01.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36348/sjls.2021.v06i01.002","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Hypothyroidism in the simplest terms can be defined as deficient production of thyroid hormone. Primary hypothyroidism indicates decreased secretion of thyroid hormone by factors affecting the thyroid gland itself. A decrease in serum concentrations of thyroid hormone causes an increased secretion of Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH), thus resulting in elevated serum TSH concentration [1-4]. Even though, classical texts of Unani Medicine does not have mention of Hypothyroidism,but the clinical features of Hypothyroidism resemble with the Alamat–waawarizat (clinical features) of su'mizaj barid /su'mizaj balghami (impaired cold temperament/impaired phelgematic temperament) . In this context, a hypothesis was drawn that su'mizaj barid /su'mizaj balghami (impaired cold temperament/impaired phelgematic temperament) may be interpreted with the clinical features of hypothyroidism using modern scientific parameters.","PeriodicalId":219819,"journal":{"name":"Haya: The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences","volume":"os-43 2 volumes 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127780770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kurishuparambil Varghese Stephy Rose, Aneykutty Joseph
{"title":"Acute Toxicity of Imidacloprid to Various Life Stages of the Giant Freshwater Prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii, de Man, 1879","authors":"Kurishuparambil Varghese Stephy Rose, Aneykutty Joseph","doi":"10.36348/SJLS.2020.V05I12.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36348/SJLS.2020.V05I12.006","url":null,"abstract":"The present study was conducted invitro to evaluate the acute toxicity of a broad spectrum neonicotinoid, imidacloprid used by farmers contently to control piercing-sucking pests in the paddy fields of Kuttanad, a part of the Vembanad wetland ecosystem which is a Ramsar site of international importance in the state of Kerala, India, to various life stages of Macrobrachium rosenbergii, a commercially important indigenous prawn of Kuttanad. The median tolerance limit (LC50) were calculated using the observations made on the mortality of prawns exposed to 5 different concentrations between the No Observable Effect Concentration (NOEC) and Lowest Observable Effect Concentration (LOEC) of biocides for a period of 96 h. LC50 values for 24, 48, 72 and 96 h of imidacloprid was determined by probit analysis using SPSS version 16.0. The study revealed that the 96 h LC50 concentrations for imidacloprid as 0.009, 5.0234 and 42.611 mg/l in post-larvae (0.041 ± 0.02 g), juvenile (3.5 ± 1.5 g) and adult (17.5 ± 2.5 g), respectively of M. rosenbergii. Based on the LC50 values, safe concentrations found out for imidacloprid using Hart’s formula were 0.002, 1.000 and 15.138 mg/l, in post-larvae, juvenile and adult M. rosenbergii, respectively. The field application concentration of imidacloprid is 0.003 mg/l which is 3 times higher than the safe concentration of imidacloprid in post-larvae, whereas it is lower than the safe concentration in juvenile and adult M. rosenbergii. The results revealed that the application of imidacloprid in the paddy fields of Kuttanad has a lethal effect on post-larvae of M. rosenbergii causing a threat to the existence of species in its homeland.","PeriodicalId":219819,"journal":{"name":"Haya: The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123834603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Melatonin as an Anti-Cancer Molecule: A Retrospective Perspective","authors":"Dr. Somenath Ghosh","doi":"10.36348/SJLS.2020.V05I12.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36348/SJLS.2020.V05I12.005","url":null,"abstract":"Etymologically, melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) can be traced back to the origin of life. The first origin of melatonin was detected in cyano-bacteria. As considering the endosymbiont hypothesis, cyanobacteria were engulfed by the animal and plant cells. Later on, these bacteria performed the roles of mitochondria and chloroplastids in animals and plant cells respectively. Inner matrices of these organelles are having melatonin and probable function of this intraorganelle melatonin is to protect the organelles from the detrimental effects from free radicals (Reactive Oxygen Species; ROSs and Reactive Nitrogen Species; RNSs). In higher animals, melatonin is synthesized and secreted by the pineal gland mainly during the night, since light exposure suppresses its production. Other than pineal gland, melatonin is secreted from several different organs like retina, gastro-intestinal tract. The secretion of this hormone is regulated by several environmental factors like photo-period, temperature, humidity etc. Melatonin can exert its function either by as a free molecule or by its membrane bound receptors MT1 and MT2 respectively. Modulations of melatonin receptors results in stimulation of apoptosis, regulation of pro-survival signaling, inhibition on angiogenesis, metastasis, and induction of epigenetic alteration. Melatonin could also be utilized as adjuvant of cancer therapies, through reinforcing the therapeutic effects and reducing the side effects of chemotherapies or radiation. Melatonin could be an excellent candidate for prevention and treatment of several cancers, such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, gastric cancer and colorectal cancer. This review summarized the anticancer efficacy of melatonin, based on the results of epidemiological, experimental and clinical studies.","PeriodicalId":219819,"journal":{"name":"Haya: The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132860679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adnan Shahid, Sajid Ali, Tazeeem Zahra, M. Raza, Attra Shahid, M. U. Saeed, Faria Javaid
{"title":"Influence of Microbes in Progression of Cancer and DNA Damaging Effects","authors":"Adnan Shahid, Sajid Ali, Tazeeem Zahra, M. Raza, Attra Shahid, M. U. Saeed, Faria Javaid","doi":"10.36348/SJLS.2020.V05I11.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36348/SJLS.2020.V05I11.002","url":null,"abstract":"Virus uses components of the host cell to complete its life cycle. Some viruses can cause or contribute to the development of cancer. Unlike other viruses, such as influenza viruses, that cause an acute infection, oncogenic viruses often cause long-term, persistent infections. Several studies also involved in the toxicity in progression of cancer caused by different microbes. Microorganisms and their metabolic byproducts, or impact of chronic inflammation, may also be linked to oral cancers. Helicobacter pylori colonize the human stomach and duodenum. In some cases it can cause stomach cancer. Salmonella Typhi has been linked to gallbladder cancer but may also be useful in delivering chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of melanoma, colon and bladder cancer. Saponins reduced the risks of the occurring of the cancer during advanced age. It has special structure that active for the frightening against the cells of the cancer. The concentrations and attacking power of the microbes as well as the other pathogens directly related to the concentration of the compounds such as the saponins that taken through diet as the right composition. Saponins in other way acting as the antioxidants to prevent the cancer. When the cells of the cancer attacked on the normal one then became difficult to stop the process of the metastasis. Saponins also showed activity against the nonfunctional cells of the lungs that have been attacked due to certain cause’s cancer.","PeriodicalId":219819,"journal":{"name":"Haya: The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121239783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of Pharmacological Features and Nanoparticle Formation by Urena lobata","authors":"D. Kumar, Somendra Kumar, M. Sahu, Anil Kumar","doi":"10.36348/SJLS.2020.V05I10.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36348/SJLS.2020.V05I10.006","url":null,"abstract":"Urena lobata commonly known as Congo jute or hibiscus burr is a shrub belonging to the family Malvaceae widely distributed throughout India. The plant is utilized by the traditional healers for various ailments such as arthritis, diabetes, cough and malaria. In the present study, phytochemical constituents and antioxidant property of Urena lobata was studies in both normal extract and silver nanoparticle form. The antioxidant property of leaf of the plant was also evaluated. We have reported alkaloid, saponin, steroid, terpenoid, tannin, flavonoid and carbohydrate and significant antioxidant activity by DPPH method from this plant. For the first time, silver nanoparticle was successfully synthesized using Urena lobata leaf extract in the current investigation and characterized by UV–VIS spectrophotometer and the characteristic surface plasmon resonance peak was identified to be ⁓424 nm. X-ray diffraction (XRD) was employed to ascertain the crystalline nature and purity of the silver nanoparticles which implied the presence of 111, 002, 022, 113, and 222 lattice planes of the cubic structure of metallic silver and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) was used to determine specific functional groups in silver nanoparticles and the capping agents present in the leaf extract.","PeriodicalId":219819,"journal":{"name":"Haya: The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121347959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Studies on Some of the Fish Catching Gears in Barak and Katakhal Drainage in Barak Valley Region of Assam","authors":"M. Choudhury","doi":"10.36348/sjls.2020.v05i06.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36348/sjls.2020.v05i06.003","url":null,"abstract":"In the present study, approaches had been made to study the various fishing gears that are being operated in River Barak and in Katakhal basin. An attempt had been made to document the traditional methods carried out for fishing in those areas, which revealed a total of 10 different types of fishing devices in the form of traps, nets and hooks. The efficacies of the gears were also being studied and it was found that the Gill net, Lift net and Cast net were most efficacious in those two areas.","PeriodicalId":219819,"journal":{"name":"Haya: The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121017160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interaction of Urea with Acridinedione Dye-Protein Complex in Aqueous Solution: A Photophysical Approach","authors":"Arumugam Dhamodaran, T. Ramachandran, R. Kumaran","doi":"10.36348/sjls.2020.v05i05.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36348/sjls.2020.v05i05.004","url":null,"abstract":"Photophysical studies of water soluble Photoinduced Electron Transfer (PET) based dye with urea in the absence and presence of a globular protein, Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) were carried out in water. Addition of urea results in a fluorescence quenching of the dye such that the local excited (LE) state emission remains largely unaffected, whereas BSA results in a fluorescence quenching accompanied with larger extent of fluorescence enhancement and promotes the formation of a new emissive peak, assigned to the Charge Transfer (CT) nature of the dye. The loss of PET behavior of the dye in water and the subsequent addition of urea or BSA influences the excited state nature of the dye. Urea predominantly governs the LE state nature of the dye and promotes the formation a new microenvironment in the presence of BSA. The binding constant parameters portray that dye is influenced by urea rather than BSA such that ureawater and urea-urea hydrogen-bonding assemblies predominates over hydrophobic nature of the protein. Fluorescence spectral technique is employed as a tool in establishing the nature of interaction between dyes with more than one water soluble Competitive Hydrogen Bonding solute is established in the present study.","PeriodicalId":219819,"journal":{"name":"Haya: The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130020655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md. Anwar Hossain Mondal, M. Sikdar, A. Khan, Md. jahangir Alam
{"title":"Poverty Alleviation through Aquaculture: An Inquiry into Some Selected Areas of Rural Bangladesh","authors":"Md. Anwar Hossain Mondal, M. Sikdar, A. Khan, Md. jahangir Alam","doi":"10.36348/sjls.2019.v04i09.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36348/sjls.2019.v04i09.002","url":null,"abstract":"An investigation was made to assessing the contribution of aquaculture on poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh. A total of one hundred five (105) farmers comprising of seventy five (75) from fish farming households and thirty (30) from non-fish farming households were selected as sample. The farmers were selected using stratified random sampling techniques. The data were collected from the study areas through questionnaires survey, focus group discussion (FGD) and cross-check interviews. Results of the study indicated that current fish production increased on an average 4300 Kg/ha/year as compared to before records (1252 Kg/ha/year ).Aquaculture contributed 29.67 percent on total annual income after participation in aquaculture. Estimated Benefit-Cost-Ration (BCR) was 3.10. A pronounced changing state on the quality and quantity of livelihoods capitals such as human capital, social capital, natural capital, physical capital and financial capital were observed comparing with the before situation. Fish consumption pattern analysis result showed that in before fish consumption quantity was on an average 33.66 gram/capita/day and that quantity rose to on an average of 63 gram /capita/day after participation in aquaculture. The estimated Head Count Poverty rate was found to be 16 percent in fish farming households as compared to 26 percent of the non-fish farming household which indicated that non-fish farming households were likely more poor than fish farming households. Regarding aquaculture production, income generation, livelihood assets acquisition and food fish security it was concluded from the present study that aquaculture surely have had a significant contribution to poverty alleviation in the rural Bangladesh.","PeriodicalId":219819,"journal":{"name":"Haya: The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126631766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}