Depression is a life-threatening psychiatric disorder characterized with a long-term hypercortisolemia in depressed patients. Based on this clinical feature, hypercortisolemia was mimicked in experimental animals to understand the neuropathogy of depression and to explore new therapeutic strategies. Wolfberry, also known as Lycium barbarum, is a type of common fruit produced in mainland China....

The value-added channa was optimized for its processing with the incorporation of 3% Lycium barbarum and 0.25% Delphinium denudatum. value added standardized subjected to an in vitro antioxidant profile analysis total phenols, flavonoids content, DPPH, ABTS FRAP assays product storage profile. prepared denudatum having a shelf life more than three weeks stored at refrigeration temperature. Thus...

Solanaceae familyasına ait özellikle Lycium barbarum L. türünün meyvesi olarak bilinen “Goji berry”, besin değerinin yüksek olması sebebiyle son yıllarda ‘‘süper meyve’’ adıyla oldukça popüler hale gelmiştir. çalı formunda çok yıllık bir bitkidir. Meyveleri tatlı ve keskin tada sahip, yaklaşık 2 cm derinliğinde elips şeklinde turuncu-kırmızı renkli yumuşak yapıya sahiptir. 2000 yılı aşkın süred...

The accurate quantitative maturity detection of fresh Lycium barbarum L. (L. barbarum) fruit is the key to determine whether are suitable for harvesting or not and can also be helpful improve quality post-harvest processing. To achieve this goal, abnormal samples were eliminated by Mahalanobis Distance (MD), nine components (i.e., R, G, B, H, S, V, L, a, b) ripe fruit, half-ripe unripe extracte...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the hepatoprotective and antioxidant effects of Lycium barbarum (LB) extract against paracetamol-induced acute oxidative stress and hepatotoxicity in rats. The subjects were divided into 6 groups of 8 rats each. The rats in the LB group were administered a dose of 100 mg/kg LB extract dissolved in saline via the intraperitoneal route for 7 days. S...

Goji (fruits of Lycium barbarum L. and L. chinense Mill.) has been used in China as food and medicine for millennia, and globally has been consumed increasingly as a healthy food. Ningxia, with a semi-arid climate, always had the reputation of producing best goji quality (daodi area). Recently, the increasing market demand pushed the cultivation into new regions with different climates. We ther...