Background & Aims: Memory and its role in learning have long been of interest to humans. Therefore, human beings have always sought ways to enhance their memory and reduce its deficit. In the present study, the effect of pumpkin seed extract on memory and learning in adult male rats were studied. Methods: The rats (weighing 180-220 g) were divided into 7 groups (n = 8); control, sham (control a...

Many nontraditional vegetable oils have been introduced to the market relatively recently, and therefore data on their antioxidant potential have not been reported. Such data are of importance for the evaluation of the nutritional and health impact of these oils. Antioxidant properties of the methanolic extracts of cold-pressed oils such as soybean, sunflower, rapeseed, corn, grapeseed, hemp, f...

Pumpkin, as a dietary plant, has been used in traditional medicine around the world. In addition, during the last decade, antidiabetic, antihypertensive, antitumor, intestinal antiparasitic, antibacterial, anti hypercholesterolemia, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory and analgic effects of pumpkin has been reported. The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of different extract...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS As dietary saturated fatty acids are associated with metabolic and cardiovascular disease, a potentially interesting strategy to reduce disease risk is modification of the quality of fat consumed. Vegetable oils represent an attractive target for intervention, as they largely determine the intake of dietary fats. Furthermore, besides potential health effects conferred by the...

Implementation of a vector-enabled metagenomics approach resulted in the identification of various geminiviruses. We identified the genome sequences of Beet curly top Iran virus, Turnip curly top viruses, Oat dwarf viruses, the first from Iran, and Wheat dwarf virus from leafhoppers feeding on beet, parsley, pumpkin, and turnip plants.

Nowadays, agricultural waste byproducts are exploited in the food industry rather than discarded. Pumpkin is one of most significant vegetable crops that widely consumed farmland and certain urban regions. The current study was designed to measure phytochemical constituents, application, health benefits, toxicity pumpkin byproducts. Pumpkins (seeds, leaf, skin/peel) can be utilized as functiona...

Pumpkin has high nutritional value essential for food security. Despite many benefits, it still considered an orphan crop in Africa. Very little information is available on the potential and production of pumpkin Africa due to neglect by researchers improvement program. Classical research, both theoretical empirical, was used conduct a systematic review various result trends obtained relation t...

ABSTRACT. The main objective of this research was to develop a simple, rapid, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly methods for determining ascorbic acid in flesh, peel, seeds pumpkin. Ascorbic extracted from the different parts pumpkin water. content three determined using ATR-FTIR UV-VIS methods. method validated determine at 1046 cm-1, results indicated linear range 5 50 g/L; R2, 0.99...

to study the effects of planting date and planting density on quantitative traits of medicinal plant, schneider squash (cucurbita pepo l.), an experiment was conducted at research field of ferdowsi university of mashhad, in year 2012. a split plot arrangement based on randomized complete block design with three replications was used. treatments consisted of three planting date levels (1 may, 11...

Fluted pumpkin stem waste, which is both a waste and pollutant, was chemically modified with ortho-phosphoric acid and used to adsorb phenol and chlorophenol in fixed bed micro column It was found that the carbon bed sorption capacity for phenol and chlorophenol (77.20 and 80.0 mg/g) were higher than the equilibrium sorption studies. The critical bed depth increased with increasing phenol and c...