Lectins are sugar-binding proteins that are highly specific for their sugar moieties. They play a role in biological recognition phenomena involving cells and proteins. For example, some viruses use lectins to attach themselves to the cells of the host organism during infection. Lectins may be disabled by specific mono- and oligosaccharides which bind to them and prevent their attachment to cell membranes. Lectins were first discovered more than 100 years ago in plants, but they are now known to be present throughout nature. Lectins are also prevalent in the microbial world, wherein...

Selenium in certain soils may be taken up by plants or through food chain in amounts sufficient to make forage toxic to animals. Selenium can be found in semiarid areas on soils typically derived from Cretaceous geologic material in the World wide. Acute poisoning results from consuming plants containing high selenium concentrations, chronic selenium Poisoning has been described in two forms: alkali disease and blind staggers. Alkali disease results from prolonged ingestion containing, 5-40 ppm selenium in inorganic or organic forms. Alkali disease causes loss or hair, lameness, weight loss...

The increasing demands and aspiration of human society has created a raising demand for good services. In the recent years due to the industrial revolution, the toxic substances being added to the environment and created problems to human life. During the past few years the discharge of toxic industrial wastes has also increased tremendously. The synthetic chemicals in agriculture, public health may contaminated by toxic pollutants. The inferences formulated in the present investigation have been under taken to evaluate the impact of inutero, lactational exposure to sodium arsenite on male...