[HTML][HTML] A Comprehensive review of functional ingredients, especially bioactive compounds present in pumpkin peel, flesh and seeds, and their health benefits

A Hussain, T Kausar, S Sehar, A Sarwar… - Food Chemistry …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima), belonging to family Cucurbitaceae, is a well-known edible
plant, cultivated and abundantly used as herbal medicine and functional food. This review …

Natural products for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus

JL Ríos, F Francini, GR Schinella - Planta medica, 2015‏ - thieme-connect.com
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease characterized by persistent hyperglycemia.
High blood sugar can produce long-term complications such as cardiovascular and renal …

Herbal medicine: biomolecular and clinical aspects

IFF Benzie, S Wachtel-Galor - 2011‏ - books.google.com
Responding to the increased popularity of herbal medicines and other forms of
complementary or alternative medicine world-wide, this reference reviews and evaluates …

[HTML][HTML] Cucurbits Plants: A Key Emphasis to Its Pharmacological Potential

B Salehi, E Capanoglu, N Adrar, G Catalkaya… - Molecules, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
Cucurbita genus has received a renowned interest in the last years. This plant species,
native to the Americas, has served worldwide folk medicine for treating gastrointestinal …

The genus Lycium as food and medicine: A botanical, ethnobotanical and historical review

R Yao, M Heinrich, CS Weckerle - Journal of ethnopharmacology, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance Lycium is widely distributed in the arid to semi-arid
environments of North and South America, Africa, and Eurasia. In recent years, Lycium …

Antidiabetic effects of natural plant extracts via inhibition of carbohydrate hydrolysis enzymes with emphasis on pancreatic alpha amylase

U Etxeberria, AL de la Garza, J Campión… - Expert opinion on …, 2012‏ - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and the negative clinical
outcomes observed with the commercially available anti-diabetic drugs have led to the …

Endoplasmic reticulum stress: its role in disease and novel prospects for therapy

AH Schönthal - Scientifica, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a multifunctional organelle required for lipid biosynthesis,
calcium storage, and protein folding and processing. A number of physiological and …

A review on pharmacological activities and utilization technologies of pumpkin

FU Caili, S Huan, LI Quanhong - Plant foods for human nutrition, 2006‏ - Springer
Dietary plants and herbal preparations have been traditionally used as medicine in
develo** countries and obtained a resurgence of use in the United States and Europe …

Medicinal mushrooms in prevention and control of diabetes mellitus

DD De Silva, S Rapior, KD Hyde, AH Bahkali - Fungal diversity, 2012‏ - Springer
Diabetes mellitus is a life-threatening chronic metabolic disease caused by lack of insulin
and/or insulin dysfunction, characterized by high levels of glucose in the blood …

Flavonoids for controlling starch digestion: structural requirements for inhibiting human α-amylase

E Lo PiparO, H Scheib, N Frei… - Journal of medicinal …, 2008‏ - ACS Publications
In this study we investigated the structural requirements for inhibition of human salivary α-
amylase by flavonoids. Four flavonols and three flavones, out of the 19 flavonoids tested …