Seed germination: An alternative to animal model to teach bioassay principles

Hydroxyapatite doped CeO2 nanoparticles: impact on biocompatibility and dye adsorption properties

“…The strong intense peaks at 2q ¼ 26.67 , 30.36 , 32.05 , 32.86 and 33.05 correspond to the h002i, h211i, h112i, h300i and h202i planes of the crystalline structure for bare HAp nanoparticles. 34 The obtained results were comparable to the database of the Joint Committee on Powder Diffraction Standards (JCPDS) card number: 9-432. The XRD spectra of bare CeO 2 nanoparticles displayed characteristic peaks at 28.4 and 47.5 .…”

“…The main objective of this study is to provide an alternative to the animal or human bioassay model. 34 The presence of nuclei in plants makes them comparable to animal and human cells; as a result, the variations in the biochemical expression of plants in the presence of different analytes can be correlated, to a great extent, with animals as well as humans beings.…”

Antioxidant and antimitotic activities of sulfated polysaccharide from marine brown algae Padina tetrastromatica

“…The biochemical similarity between plants and animals can be exploited to use plants as an alternative system for animal experiments for the development of new drugs (Nayak and Lakshmi, 2014). The chromosomal mutations in higher plant system can be directly correlated to the mammalian system (James et al, 2014;Nielsen and Rank, 1994).…”

“…Growth inhibition assays in plants provide another better way of detecting the antimitotic potential of various drugs (Alamgir et al, 2014). Germination of green gram seeds and A. cepa test are the two common methods used to test antimitotic activity (Nayak and Lakshmi, 2014;Sadananda, 2013). The relative germination ratio of the seed will decrease with increase in the extract concentration (Mohamed and El-Ashry, 2012).…”