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S. Mohan Raj ¹, Shahid Mohammed ², S. Vinoth Kumar ³, C. Santhosh Kumar ⁴, Subal Debnath ⁴

Affiliations
1 Department of Pharmacology, Jogaiah Institute of Technology and Sciences, College of Pharmacy, IN
2 Jogaiah Institute of Technology and Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Kalagampudi, W.G, Andhra Pradesh, IN
3 Gogulakrishna College of Pharmacy, Sulurpet, Andhra Pradesh, IN
4 Srikrupa Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vil. Velkatta, Kondapak (Mdl), Dist. Medak, Siddipet, Andhra Pradesh - 502 277, IN

Abstract

The Antidiabetic activity of fruits and seeds ethanolic extract of Luffa acutangula (Cucurbitaceae) was studied in a Streptozotocin {STZ) induced diabetic in rats. The acute toxicity and lethality (LD₅₀) and the Phytochemicals analysis of the extract were also evaluated. The results showed that the extract (200 and 400 mg/kg) significantly (P<0.05) reduced fasting blood sugar of Streptozotocin diabetic rats in a dose-related manner, with maximum hypoglycemic effect at after 21 days. Acute toxicity and lethality test of the extract in rats gave an oral LD₅₀ greater than 5 g/kg. It is clearly evident from the study that the streptozotocin administration caused the significant increase in the blood glucose level at 0 day (p<0.001). The 50% ethanolic extract of the fruits of Luffa acutangula showed the significant effect compared with the respective diabetic control group, decrease the blood glucose level at a dose of 200 mg/kg and 400 mg/kg (p<0.001), the standard drug glibenclamide also showed the significant decrease the blood glucose level after 21 days (241.33-105.33, p<0.001). Finally the 400 mg/kg and the standard drug showed the significant decrease in the blood glucose level after 21 days treatment (p<0.001). The findings indicate that the leaves of Luffa Acutangula may be beneficial as an Antidiabetic therapy.

Keywords

Streptozotocin, Luffa acutangula, Antidiabetic.

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R. Sabari ¹, K. R. Saranyan ¹, M. Sathish Kumar ¹, S. Vinoth Kumar ¹, V. Anand Kumar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, TamilNadu, IN

Abstract

Color Based Object Sorting has a wide usage in fruit sorting as well as candy sorting industries. This system puts forward a mechanism to detect color and sort items through image processing. Once identified a mechanism is used to sort the candies into particular bins baskets. We here demonstrate this mechanism using a camera with electronic circuitry along with sorting mechanism using 3 bins. The system uses raspberry pi connected to a controller circuit to achieve this task. The controller circuit consists of a camera attached to it that detects color of a small object in front of it. A motor is used to feed an object to the camera chamber. As soon is the color is detected a signal is sent to the sorter mechanism which uses a motor to position the sorting tube towards respective section. A feeder is then used to push the object towards the tubs so that it gets sorted and next object is pulled in by the feeder. The action details are sent to the IOT server using iotgecko platform to keep track of the number of objects sorted in each section. Thus we achieve a completely automated IOT based sorting system.

Keywords

Internet of Things (IoT), Color Sensor, Arduino Uno, Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) Module etc.

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