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Stem cell biology, many signals regulated stem cells and organ development. Wnt factors play a crucial role in stem cells development and induced signaling pathway in stem cells. Wnt signals classified as a canonical and non-canonical pathway. Wnt factors regulated both pathways for stem cells self-renewal, proliferation, and differentiation. Wnt canonical pathway induced by Wnt1, Wnt2, Wnt2b, Wnt3, Wnt3a, Wnt4, Wnt5a, Wnt6, Wnt7a, Wnt7b, Wnt8a, Wnt8b, Wnt10a and Wnt10b. Wnt non-canonical pathway regulated by Wnt factors such as Wnt1, Wnt4, Wnt5a, Wnt5b, Wnt6, Wnt7a, Wnt7b, Wnt9a, Wnt9b, Wnt10a, Wnt10b, Wnt11, and Wnt16. These all factors have a specialized role in stem cells and development. These factors also regulated wound healing mechanism and variety of organ regeneration. Finally, abnormality or aberrant expression of Wnt signals regulated a variety of...
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Diabetes mellitus (DM), both insulin-dependent DM (IDDM) and non-insulin dependent DM (NIDDM) is a common and serious metabolic disorder throughout the world. Traditional plant treatments have been used throughout the world for the therapy of diabetes mellitus. Among many medications and other alternative medicines, several herbs have been known to cure and control diabetes; additionally, they have no side effects. The present paper is an attempt to list the plants with anti-diabetic and related beneficial effects originating from different parts of the world. History showed that medicinal plants had been used in traditional healing around the world for a long time to treat diabetes; this is because such herbal plants have hypoglycemic properties and other beneficial properties, as reported in scientific literature. The medicinal plants, besides having natural therapeutic values against various diseases and considerable works have been done on these plants to treat diabetes mellitus, describes that the anti-diabetic activity of medicinal plants is due to the presence of phenolic compounds, flavonoids, terpenoids, coumarins and other constituents which...
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