What is it about?
The study explored the seeds pulp of the fresh bottle gourd fruit of edible age. It isolated some chemical compounds from the central part of the fresh fruit using extraction, chromatographic and other techniques. Some bioactivities were also determined.
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Why is it important?
The study is an effort to understand the chemical profile of the seeds pulp of the young fresh fruit bottle gourd. It provided data to understand the medicinal properties of this part of the fruit.
Perspectives
To understand and discover natural and alternative medicines. The fruit bottle gourd or calabash has rich ethnomedicine. Thus, the current study was planned to understand the chemical constituents of the seeds pulp of the fruit and to know some of its bioactivities.
Dr Dildar Ahmed
Forman Christian College
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This page is a summary of: Study of bioactivities of lipid content of fresh Lagenaria siceraria seeds pulp and identification of its chemical constituents, Journal of Medicinal Plants Research, August 2014, Academic Journals,
DOI: 10.5897/jmpr2014.5484.
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