Title

A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of diabetes and its secondary complications

Authors

Nirmala Arulrayan, Saradha Rangasamy, Eliza James and Daisy Pitchai*

Affiliation

Bioinformatics Centre, Dept.of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, Holy Cross College, Tepakulam, Tiruchirapalli-620002

Email

daisylesslie@yahoo.com; * Corresponding author

Article Type

Web Database

Date

received May 28, 2007; revised June 07; accepted June 13, 2007; published online June 26, 2007
 

Abstract

Effective treatment of diabetes is increasingly dependent on active constituents of medicinal plants capable of controlling hyperglycemia as well as its secondary complications. Sensing the importance of documenting such medicinal plants, here we describe a web database containing information (name, literature citation, active compounds and few related full text articles) of the diabetes medicinal plants exhibiting hypoglycemic, antioxidant and antimicrobial effects.

 http://www.autogeneralfilters.com/holycross/Home.htm

Keywords

diabetes; medicinal plants; database; literature; active principles; antioxidant; antimicrobial properties

Citation

Arulrayan et al., Bioinformation 2(1): 22-23 (2007)

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.