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Bishnupada Roy
English
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
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In vitro cestocidal activity of Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre, a traditionally used anthelmintic plant in India
Persicaria hydropiper is a medicinal plant used for the treatment of helminth infections among the Naga people of India. To verify the traditional claim of the plant, an in vitro anthelmintic efficacy of the meth...
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Molecular identification of two cestodes species parasitizing freshwater fishes in India
In the present study, molecular identification of two species of cestodes, Lytocestus indicus and Senga lucknowensis infecting freshwater fishes Clarias magur and Channa punctata, respectively in Manipur is carri...
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Biochemical and ultrastructural changes in Raillietina echinobothrida in vitro exposed to extract of Lysimachia ramosa
Lysimachia ramosa (Primulaceae) is a traditionally used medicinal plant, leaves extract of which is being widely used by the Jaintia tribes of Meghalaya, India for controlling helminthiasis. Preliminary investiga...
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Filarial infections in semi-wild cattle of Northeast India: first record of Setaria digitata (von Linstow 1906) in Bos frontalis (Lambert 1804)
The occurrence of adult Setaria digitata, a filarial nematode of bovine host is reported for the first time from mithun (Bos frontalis) of Arunachal Pradesh, India. During December 2011 to March 2012, a thorough ...
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Effects of Acacia oxyphylla and Securinega virosa on functional characteristics of Raillietina echinobothrida (Phylum: Platyhelminthes; Class: Cestoidea), a poultry cestode parasite
The histochemical distribution and quantification of alkaline phosphatase, acid phosphatase, and adenosine triphosphatase have been investigated in the adult cyclophyllidean cestode, Raillietina echinobothrida af...
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Potentilla fulgens (Family Rosaceae), a medicinal plant of north-east India: a natural anthelmintic?
The cestode parasite, Raillietina echinobothrida and the trematode, Gastrothylax crumenifer were exposed to the ethanolic root peel extract of Potentilla fulgens, an antiparasitic local medicinal plant of Meghala...
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Antiparasitic activity of methanolic extract of Acacia oxyphylla (Leguminosae) against Raillietina echinobothrida
Acacia oxyphylla has been used traditionally by the natives of Mizoram against intestinal worm infections. In the present study, the crude methanolic extract of the plant was tested in vitro on the cestode parasi...
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Anthelmintic efficacy of ethanolic shoot extract of Alpinia nigra on tegumental enzymes of Fasciolopsis buski, a giant intestinal parasite
Ethanolic shoot extract of Alpinia nigra, a traditionally used anthelmintic medicinal plant among the Tripuri tribes of north-east India, was tested in vitro to determine its anthelmintic efficacy in gastrointest...
