Title

A database for anti-diabetic plants with clinical/ experimental trials

Authors

Sarita Singh¹*, Sunil Kumar Gupta¹, Gulam Sabir¹, Manish Kumar Gupta², Prahlad Kishore Seth¹

Affiliation

¹Bioinformatics Centre, Biotech Park, Lucknow; ²Department of Bioinformatics, C. S. J. M. University, Kanpur

Email

saritasingh.bi@gmail.com

Article Type

Database

Date

Received September 30, 2009; Revised November 9, 2009; Accepted December 15, 2009; Published December 31, 2009

Abstract

A number of plants have been described in Ayurveda and other traditional medicine for the management of diabetes. However, information about them is not easily available. Active constituents of any medicinal plant define the efficacy and safety of treatment to control hyperglycemia. We describe the database to maintain the record of medicinal plants having anti-hyperglycemic or anti-diabetic activity. The database contains information such as plant name, its geographical distribution, useful plant part, known dosage, active constituents, mechanism of action and clinical/experimental data. The database also includes information about plant raw material suppliers or manufacturers in India. The current database includes 238 plants species and 123 Indian industries using them.

Keywords

diabetes; medicinal plants; database; literature; anti-oxidant

Citation

Singh et al., Bioinformation 4(6): 263-268 (2009)

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.