Title

A database of 389 medicinal plants for diabetes

Authors

Padavala Ajay Babu^1*, 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.