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The purpose of this study was to show the antidiabetic effect of ethanolic extract of Aloe vera gel in alloxan induced hyperglycaemic mice. Ethanolic extract of Aloe vera gel was orally administered for four weeks at a dose of 300mg/kg body weight. Weekly estimates of fasting blood glucose level in normal non-diabetic and alloxan induced hyperglycaemic mice were assessed. Ethanolic Aloe vera gel extract revealed no blood glucose lowering action upon non-diabetic mice. But, a significant reduction in blood glucose level (p<0.001) was seen in diabetic mice, when compared with diabetic control. Similar results were found when compared with a standard antidiabetic drug, gliclazide. To conclude, as administration of ethanolic extract of Aloe vera gel significantly reduces blood glucose level in hyperglycaemic mice, it can optimistically emerge as a new hope in the management of diabetes mellitus.

Background: Educational innovation is moving from a fully traditional system to an innovative and interactive teaching method, inspiring our students for self-directed learning, concentrating on quality improvement, trying to mold the curriculum and evaluation system. Using Information and communication technology (ICT) in education is not to replace the traditional method, but to complement it. Objective: To study the undergraduate students’ attitude, experience and satisfaction regarding use of technology for teaching-learning, within E-learning Environments that is the Requirement of individual ICT infrastructure for the institutions, also the Mlearning Materials and Methods: Online questionnaire survey on 41 students of a batch in 4th year of SSMC on Google format was done to understand their ICT experiences and acceptance towards the tools in COVID pandemic mainly focused on M-learning, a part of E-learning. Moving out of the traditional system, a power point presentation was shared with the students through mail. They downloaded it in their smartphone, gone through it as a selflearning content to their exam. After their exam this survey was done. The data was collected online and automatically showed in pie charts. Results: Among the 41 students 41(100%) have got the personal handle held tools. But still, out of their online classes they use these tools for educational purposes in this manner- 61% spends 25-50%, 22% spends 50-75% and 17.1% spends 10-25% of their total usage period. 68.3% students prefer video as a content, 17.1% as PDF and 7.3% as power point presentation. Due to advancement of the ICT tools 73.2% did not face any difficulty in receiving and reading the content. Degree of satisfaction was done through a 4-point Likert scale online. 26.8% were well satisfied, 43.9% were satisfied and 29.3% showed average in their response. All the students 41(100%) showed their interest on having same type of learning in future. Conclusion: ICT influences our teaching learning system, which has a great prospect. Changes in this system is needed to get the benefit from ICT tools exclusively in future. Sir Salimullah Med Coll J 2022; 30: 29-34

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jdmc.v20i2.10537 J. Dhaka Med. Coll. 2011; 20(2): 119-123

Primary dysmenorrhea refers to painful menstrual cramps of uterus led to considered gynecological complaint. Menstrual discomfort was reported in half to four-fifth of females and one-fourth reported sever dysmenorrhea. Newer combination of herbal products like Fennel and Mefenamic acid becoming popular and replacing conventional NSAIDs/ OCPs therapy for their major adverse effect. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of Mefenamic acid alone and combination with Fennel (Foenicullum Vulgare) on primary dysmenorrhoea. This interventional study was conducted among randomly selected 100 female workers with age range 18-25 years of two Garments Factories at Demra, Dhaka during July 2014 to June with the complaints of moderate to severe pain intensity and bleeding of primary dysmenorrhea. There were two group, group A (50 women) were treated with Cap Mefenamic Acid 250 mg once daily and group B (50) were with Cap Mefenamic Acid 250 mg once daily and fennel supplementation 10 ml three times daily. The mean age of respondents was 21.60 ± 2.59 and menarche age was 13.92±1.15 year. Mean duration of the menstrual cycle and cycle length were 6.24±1.66 and 27.36±3.63 days respectively. Mean onset age of Dysmenorrhea 16.16±1.81 year and intensity of dysmenorrhea (VAS-Visual Analogue Scale) 6.5±1.6. Group A had no any special experience on pain relief sensation by taking Mefenamic Acid alone, whereas Group B gathered better experience after administration of Cap Mefenamic Acid with fennel supplementation. Moreover, according to result of the analysis, comparison with bleeding tendency was also not shown the significant difference. One more important thing is that these two group faced some adverse effect of those medication such as group A had no complaints of allergic reaction, visual and neurologic disturbance where 2% had gastro-intestinal upset and 2% had respiratory distress in Group A; on the other hand, 2% had allergic reaction, 2% had visual symptom and respiratory distress had 4% cases in Group B. Mefenamic acid with fennel can decrease the severity of dysmenorrhea. However, any intervention might be found out to treat dysmenorrhea with less adverse effects is highly desired. Bangladesh Med J. 2019 May; 48 (2): 38-43