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Authors

Affiliation

¹Indian Institute of Biotechnology Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India- 500037; ²National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Department of Pharmacology, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India – 500037; ³Theraxel Discoveries, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - 500038

Email

srao@iibt.in; *Corresponding author

Article Type

Database

Date

Received March 19, 2013; Accepted March 25, 2013; Published April 13, 2013

According to International Diabetes Federation (IDF), India has 62.4 million people with diabetes and by 2030 it is predicted that the number will rise to 100 million. Studies claim that there are around 410 experimentally proven Indian medicinal plants which have anti-diabetic activity, of which the mechanism of action of 109 plants has been elucidated or reported. So, the need of the hour is to explore the claims of Indian medicinal flora and open up the facets of many Indian plants which are being examined for their beneficial role in diabetes. So, we created a database (InDiaMed) of Indian medicinal plants that captures their role in anti-diabetic activity. InDiaMed’s features include chemical, pharmacological, biochemical and geographical information of the medicinal plant, scientifically relevant information of the plant, and the coherent research done on it in the field of diabetes. The database also includes the list of poly-herbal formulations which are used for treatment of diabetes in India.

Availability

http://www.indiamed.info

Keywords

Diabetes, Database, Medicinal Plants, Poly-herbal formulations, active constituents.

Citation

Tota et al. Bioinformation 9(7): 378-380 (2013)

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.