FLORISTIC COMPOSITION AND UTILIZATION OF ETHNOMEDICINAL PLANT SPECIES IN HOME GARDENS OF THE EASTERN HIMALAYA

Floristic composition and utilization of ethnomedicinal plant species in home gardens of the Eastern Himalaya

Abstract Background Home gardens are popular micro land-use system and are socioeconomically linked with people for their livelihood.In the foothill region of Eastern Himalaya, very less documentations are available on species richness of the home gardens, Foot Files particularly on the ethnomedicinal plants.We assumed that the home garden owners o

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5meCpG epigenetic marks neighboring a primate-conserved core promoter short tandem repeat indicate X-chromosome inactivation.

X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) is the epigenetic transcriptional silencing of an X-chromosome during the early stages of embryonic development in female eutherian mammals.XCI assures monoallelic expression in each cell and compensation for dosage-sensitive X-linked genes between females (XX) and males (XY).DNA methylation at the carbon-5 position

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Exposed and Sequestered Antigens in Testes and Their Protection by Regulatory T Cell-Dependent Systemic Tolerance

Continuous exposure of tissue antigen (Ag) to the autoantigen-specific regulatory T cells (Treg) is required to maintain Treg-dependent systemic tolerance.Thus, testis autoantigens, previously considered as sequestered, may not be protected by systemic tolerance.We now document that the complete testis antigen sequestration is not valid.The haploid

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