This study aimed to identify undesirable and toxic effects of plants used in Guinean traditional medicine. Materials Methods: We surveyed 131 practitioners 2 prefectures Guinea about their knowledge experience with adverse or events associated the medicinal non-medicinal use plants, collecting samples these for botanical analysis. Results: Ethnobotanically, 54 species from 33 families were iden...

Aims: to investigate the potential of Mucuna milk influence weight gain, blood lipid levels and redox status in a rat model on high-fat diet.
 Study Design: 42 healthy male Wistar rats were randomly divided into 7 groups 6 rats. Group I received standard diet; II was fed high fat diet only; III treated with Atorvastatin (10 mg/kg per day) orally for 4 weeks; IV, V, VI VII tests given 20 mL...

In recent years there has been a shift in the focus of biotechnological progress to find new approaches in food fermentation and develop multifunctional microorganisms to improve the nutritional and health benefit of food. In the present study, rice-mucuna blends of different formulation, (100:0, 100:0, 90:10, 80:20, 70:30, 60:40, and 50:50) respectively, were subjected to solid state fermentat...

In most western countries, the symptomatic management of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is usually achieved with medicinal products including levodopa (LD), dopamine agonists, MAO‐B inhibitors, COMT inhibitors, antimuscarinics and amantadine. The control of the quality of the production of such medications is strict and the assessment of the benefit‐risk ratio of these ...

Los bajos rendimientos en maíz Paraguay, podrían ser paliados con una adecuada fertilización y su manejo, incluyendo la incorporación abonos verdes, como de mucuna ceniza (Mucuna pruriens). El objetivo del estudio fue evaluar el efecto fosfatada comportamiento agronómico variedad Dkb 290, cultivada ya sea incorporada al suelo o cobertura suelo. tratamientos fueron implementados un diseño experi...