The methanolic extract of the roots of Asparagus africanus Lam (Liliaceae) which contains mainly saponins and carbohydrate showed significant analgesic and anti-inflammatory activities (P<0.05) in the tail-flick/hot-plate test and egg albumen-induced rat paw oedema tests that were comparable to the test drugs (morphine 20 mg/kg and indomethacin 50 mg/kg respectively). These results indicate tha...

Cholesterol-lowering potential of foods and food fractions have been evaluated by determining ☆ The mention of are endorsed or recom other firms or similar ⁎ Corresponding a E-mail address: ts 0271-5317/$ – see fro doi:10.1016/j.nutres.2 their bile acid–binding potential. Reducing bile acid recirculation lowers cholesterol by reducing fat absorption and use of cholesterol to synthesize bile aci...

In recent years, there have been several outbreaks of extensive flooding in northern provinces, and asparagus stem blight disease brown spot diseases become increasingly serious, significantly reducing the yield grown large fields, so production has developed toward facility agriculture. order to solve problems high labor cost, shortage, low efficiency faced by agriculture, it is an inevitable ...

In vitro plant tissue culture and biotechnology used to assist support the development of breeding when classical methods propagation must be accelerated or it was necessary overcome barriers inaccessible by approaches. asparagus, improve multiple tasks, a high number in have been used, such as regeneration through organogenesis, embryogenesis, manipulation ploidy, protoplast isolation, genetic...