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Title

 

A database of 389 medicinal plants for diabetes

 

Authors

 

Padavala Ajay Babu1*, Gadde Suneetha1, Radha Boddepalli1, Vedurupaka Vasantha Lakshmi1, Talluru Sudha Rani1, Yellapu RamBabu2 and Kolli Srinivas3

 

Affiliation

 

1Bioinformatics Training & Research Centre, ProGene Biosciences, 103, Bharat Towers, Dwaraka Nagar, Visakhapatnam - 530016; 2Department of Biotechnology, College of Engineering, GITAM, Visakhapatnam - 530045;  3Sri Venkateswara College of Pharmacy, Etcherla, Srikakulam

 

E-mail*

 

ajay@progenebio.in; * Corresponding author

 

Phone

 

+91-891-5571195

 

Article Type

 

Database

 

Date

 

received March 17, 2006; accepted April 5, 2006; published online April 13, 2006

 

Abstract

 

Medicinal plants used to treat hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic conditions are of considerable interest to ethno-botanical community as they are recognized to contain valuable medicinal properties in different parts of the plant. The active principles of many plant species with desired properties are isolated to cure ailments such as diabetes type-1 and type-2, respectively. Here, we describe DiaMedBase, a database containing information of medicinal plants for diabetes.

 

Availability

 

http://www.progenebio.in/DMP/DMP.htm

 

Keywords

 

 

medicinal plants; diabetes; database; data; literature

 

Citation

 

Babu et al., Bioinformation 1(4): 130-131 (2006)

 

Edited by

 

P. Kangueane

 

ISSN

 

0973-2063

 

Publisher

 

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

 

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.