Objectives Imprisoned people usually have a poor health status and an increase risk to suffer chr... more Objectives Imprisoned people usually have a poor health status and an increase risk to suffer chronic debilitating conditions, co-infection due to their limitations in physical activity and mental disturbances. This study was carried to find out the health impacts of Yogic practice of Indian healthy jail inmates. Methods It was interventional single group pre-post design study. A total no of 30, Jail inmates including 08 female were participated in this study and practiced Yoga for six months. Body Mass Index, Heart Rate, Blood Pressure, Salivary alpha amylase activity (SAA) a stress marker were assessed before, after three months and after completion of six months of Yogic practice. Results Improvement was noted in all parameters, but significant improvement was noted in systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, mean blood pressure, double product a index of load in the heart and SAA following Yogic practice in total participants. Significant improvement was also noted in ...
Objectives: Aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of yogic practice in some cardiovascula... more Objectives: Aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of yogic practice in some cardiovascular and respiratory parameters of overweight females after menopause. Background: Non pharmacological management of cardiorespiratory efficiency on overweight postmenopausal women. Materials and Methods: A total of 15 overweight (BMI > 25 kg/m 2 and < 30 kg/m 2 ) females after menopause (age 53.7 ± 1.04, Mean ± SEM) were participated in a 03 weeks of yoga program for 06 days a week for 1 hour daily. Blood pressure and heart rate was recorded using Omron BP monitor. Rate pressure product and double product was measured using standard formula. Respiratory rate and breath - hold time was recorded using standard protocol. Paired t - test was performed to find out any significant different between the data collected before and after yogic practice. Results: A significant decrement was noted in body weight (p<0.01) and body mass index (p<0.05) following yogic practice. Systolic (p<...
Objective: The present study was carried out to evaluate the effect of three months yogic practic... more Objective: The present study was carried out to evaluate the effect of three months yogic practices on ventilatory functions. Methods: Sixty (n=60) healthy male volunteers (age range 21–33 years and height of 174.8 ± 3.52 cm) drawn randomly from BSF personnel participated in the study. Participants practiced yoga under supervision of professional yoga instructor, two hours daily five days a week, along with their daily routine activities. Standing height, weight and dynamic lung function tests viz. Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 st second (FEV1) and Maximum Voluntary Ventilation (MVV) were measured before and after 3 months of yoga training. Tiffeneau index (TI) was calculated before and after the said training. Results: After three months of yogic practice, there was no significant change in body weight with a trend of reduction. MVV increased significantly (P < 0.01) while the other parameters viz. FVC, FEV1 and TI did not change significantly. Concl...
BackgroundMany clinical trials have evaluated the oxidative stress reduction and enhancement of a... more BackgroundMany clinical trials have evaluated the oxidative stress reduction and enhancement of antioxidant status following yogic practices, but a review has not been reported earlier. Present study is designed to systematically review the effect of yogic practices on oxidative stress and antioxidant status.ContentUsing the MEDLINE, EMBASE SCOPEMED, and Indian database electronic searches were performed through August 2016 using the keywords yoga AND oxidative stress OR antioxidant which yielded 97 studies. Selections were made to include only experimental studies written in English, published in peer-reviewed journals and investigating the effects of regular yogic practices on oxidative stress and antioxidant status in these studies.Summary and outlookSearch yielded a total of 97 trials, 11 met rigorous criteria for final systematic review. Healthy population showed overall enhancement of antioxidant status and reduced oxidative stress following yogic practices. Diabetic patients ...
Objectives: Aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of yogic practice in some cardiovascula... more Objectives: Aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of yogic practice in some cardiovascular and respiratory parameters of overweight females after menopause. Background: Non pharmacological management of cardiorespiratory efficiency on overweight postmenopausal women. Materials and Methods: A total of 15 overweight (BMI > 25 kg/m 2 and < 30 kg/m 2) females after menopause (age 53.7 ± 1.04, Mean ± SEM) were participated in a 03 weeks of yoga program for 06 days a week for 1 hour daily. Blood pressure and heart rate was recorded using Omron BP monitor. Rate pressure product and double product was measured using standard formula. Respiratory rate and breath-hold time was recorded using standard protocol. Paired ttest was performed to find out any significant different between the data collected before and after yogic practice. Results: A significant decrement was noted in body weight (p<0.01) and body mass index (p<0.05) following yogic practice. Systolic (p< 0.001) and mean (p< 0.01) blood pressure was decreased significantly after yogic practice. RPP an index of myocardial oxygen consumption and double product an index of load on the heart was decreased significantly (p<0.001) following yogic practice. Resting heart rate and Respiratory rate was decreased significantly (p<0.001) following yogic practice. Breath-hold time was increased significantly (p<0.001) following yogic practice. Conclusions: This particular yogic package when practiced 03 weeks 06 days a week for 01 hour daily is beneficial for cardiovascular improvements of overweight females after menopause. In addition to that same package is also beneficial for the improvement of respiratory rate and breath-hold time. Apart from that, study is limited within a small no of subjects without any control group, which remains to be studied.
Calotropis species are well-known traditional medicinal plant in the tropical and subtropical reg... more Calotropis species are well-known traditional medicinal plant in the tropical and subtropical regions. The present study was used to investigate the antitumor activity as well as to evaluate in vivo and in vitro cytotoxicity of the aqueous solution of dry latex of Calotropis gigantea (ASDLCG) against sarcoma-180 carcinoma cells. The ASDLCG was administered intraperitoneally at the dose level of 100mg/kg body weight per day for consecutive 14 days after 24 hour (day zero) of sarcoma-180 cell inoculation (2×10 6 cell) to mice. In vitro cytotoxicity study showed that the reduction in viability of sarcoma-180 by ASDLCG at the concentration of 100, 200 and 300 µg/ml are 47.30%, 52.03% and 57.43% respectively. The in vivo study was performed in sarcoma-180-bearing mice by assessing the increase in life span, viable tumor cell count, total tumor cell count, and haematological parameters. Haemoglobin content, RBC count, lymphocyte & monocyte count of sarcoma control group was significantly decreased in comparison to the normal group. Treatment with ASDLCG significantly increased haemoglobin content, RBC, lymphocyte and monocyte count to more or less normal level. The total WBC and neutrophil count were found to be increased significantly in sarcoma-control group which were restored towards normal after the treatment of ASDLCG. This ASDLCG also reduced the hepatic lipid peroxidation (MDA content), oxidized glutathione (GSSG) and increased the reduced glutathione (GSH) compared to the sarcoma-control group. These results indicate that ASDLCG has anticarcinogenic effect as well as antioxidant activity against sarcoma-180 carcinoma cells directly and also in sarcoma-180-bearing male albino mice.
Objectives Imprisoned people usually have a poor health status and an increase risk to suffer chr... more Objectives Imprisoned people usually have a poor health status and an increase risk to suffer chronic debilitating conditions, co-infection due to their limitations in physical activity and mental disturbances. This study was carried to find out the health impacts of Yogic practice of Indian healthy jail inmates. Methods It was interventional single group pre-post design study. A total no of 30, Jail inmates including 08 female were participated in this study and practiced Yoga for six months. Body Mass Index, Heart Rate, Blood Pressure, Salivary alpha amylase activity (SAA) a stress marker were assessed before, after three months and after completion of six months of Yogic practice. Results Improvement was noted in all parameters, but significant improvement was noted in systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, mean blood pressure, double product a index of load in the heart and SAA following Yogic practice in total participants. Significant improvement was also noted in ...
Objectives: Aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of yogic practice in some cardiovascula... more Objectives: Aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of yogic practice in some cardiovascular and respiratory parameters of overweight females after menopause. Background: Non pharmacological management of cardiorespiratory efficiency on overweight postmenopausal women. Materials and Methods: A total of 15 overweight (BMI > 25 kg/m 2 and < 30 kg/m 2 ) females after menopause (age 53.7 ± 1.04, Mean ± SEM) were participated in a 03 weeks of yoga program for 06 days a week for 1 hour daily. Blood pressure and heart rate was recorded using Omron BP monitor. Rate pressure product and double product was measured using standard formula. Respiratory rate and breath - hold time was recorded using standard protocol. Paired t - test was performed to find out any significant different between the data collected before and after yogic practice. Results: A significant decrement was noted in body weight (p<0.01) and body mass index (p<0.05) following yogic practice. Systolic (p<...
Objective: The present study was carried out to evaluate the effect of three months yogic practic... more Objective: The present study was carried out to evaluate the effect of three months yogic practices on ventilatory functions. Methods: Sixty (n=60) healthy male volunteers (age range 21–33 years and height of 174.8 ± 3.52 cm) drawn randomly from BSF personnel participated in the study. Participants practiced yoga under supervision of professional yoga instructor, two hours daily five days a week, along with their daily routine activities. Standing height, weight and dynamic lung function tests viz. Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 st second (FEV1) and Maximum Voluntary Ventilation (MVV) were measured before and after 3 months of yoga training. Tiffeneau index (TI) was calculated before and after the said training. Results: After three months of yogic practice, there was no significant change in body weight with a trend of reduction. MVV increased significantly (P < 0.01) while the other parameters viz. FVC, FEV1 and TI did not change significantly. Concl...
BackgroundMany clinical trials have evaluated the oxidative stress reduction and enhancement of a... more BackgroundMany clinical trials have evaluated the oxidative stress reduction and enhancement of antioxidant status following yogic practices, but a review has not been reported earlier. Present study is designed to systematically review the effect of yogic practices on oxidative stress and antioxidant status.ContentUsing the MEDLINE, EMBASE SCOPEMED, and Indian database electronic searches were performed through August 2016 using the keywords yoga AND oxidative stress OR antioxidant which yielded 97 studies. Selections were made to include only experimental studies written in English, published in peer-reviewed journals and investigating the effects of regular yogic practices on oxidative stress and antioxidant status in these studies.Summary and outlookSearch yielded a total of 97 trials, 11 met rigorous criteria for final systematic review. Healthy population showed overall enhancement of antioxidant status and reduced oxidative stress following yogic practices. Diabetic patients ...
Objectives: Aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of yogic practice in some cardiovascula... more Objectives: Aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of yogic practice in some cardiovascular and respiratory parameters of overweight females after menopause. Background: Non pharmacological management of cardiorespiratory efficiency on overweight postmenopausal women. Materials and Methods: A total of 15 overweight (BMI > 25 kg/m 2 and < 30 kg/m 2) females after menopause (age 53.7 ± 1.04, Mean ± SEM) were participated in a 03 weeks of yoga program for 06 days a week for 1 hour daily. Blood pressure and heart rate was recorded using Omron BP monitor. Rate pressure product and double product was measured using standard formula. Respiratory rate and breath-hold time was recorded using standard protocol. Paired ttest was performed to find out any significant different between the data collected before and after yogic practice. Results: A significant decrement was noted in body weight (p<0.01) and body mass index (p<0.05) following yogic practice. Systolic (p< 0.001) and mean (p< 0.01) blood pressure was decreased significantly after yogic practice. RPP an index of myocardial oxygen consumption and double product an index of load on the heart was decreased significantly (p<0.001) following yogic practice. Resting heart rate and Respiratory rate was decreased significantly (p<0.001) following yogic practice. Breath-hold time was increased significantly (p<0.001) following yogic practice. Conclusions: This particular yogic package when practiced 03 weeks 06 days a week for 01 hour daily is beneficial for cardiovascular improvements of overweight females after menopause. In addition to that same package is also beneficial for the improvement of respiratory rate and breath-hold time. Apart from that, study is limited within a small no of subjects without any control group, which remains to be studied.
Calotropis species are well-known traditional medicinal plant in the tropical and subtropical reg... more Calotropis species are well-known traditional medicinal plant in the tropical and subtropical regions. The present study was used to investigate the antitumor activity as well as to evaluate in vivo and in vitro cytotoxicity of the aqueous solution of dry latex of Calotropis gigantea (ASDLCG) against sarcoma-180 carcinoma cells. The ASDLCG was administered intraperitoneally at the dose level of 100mg/kg body weight per day for consecutive 14 days after 24 hour (day zero) of sarcoma-180 cell inoculation (2×10 6 cell) to mice. In vitro cytotoxicity study showed that the reduction in viability of sarcoma-180 by ASDLCG at the concentration of 100, 200 and 300 µg/ml are 47.30%, 52.03% and 57.43% respectively. The in vivo study was performed in sarcoma-180-bearing mice by assessing the increase in life span, viable tumor cell count, total tumor cell count, and haematological parameters. Haemoglobin content, RBC count, lymphocyte & monocyte count of sarcoma control group was significantly decreased in comparison to the normal group. Treatment with ASDLCG significantly increased haemoglobin content, RBC, lymphocyte and monocyte count to more or less normal level. The total WBC and neutrophil count were found to be increased significantly in sarcoma-control group which were restored towards normal after the treatment of ASDLCG. This ASDLCG also reduced the hepatic lipid peroxidation (MDA content), oxidized glutathione (GSSG) and increased the reduced glutathione (GSH) compared to the sarcoma-control group. These results indicate that ASDLCG has anticarcinogenic effect as well as antioxidant activity against sarcoma-180 carcinoma cells directly and also in sarcoma-180-bearing male albino mice.
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