Background and objectives: Cucurbita Pepo L. is a one-year creeper plant with wide heart shaped leaves covered by tiny trichome with many benefits in its fruit, seed, leaf and root. Currently some studies has been directed to show its preventive and curetive properties for some diseases as an alternative or supplement for other methods. The purpose of present study was to investigate the mentio...

A significant decrease in alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity and mucosal thickness and increase in ulcer index (UI) was observed in aspirin treated stomach and duodenum of albino rats. However, pretreatment with C. pepo fruit pulp extract for 14 consecutive days showed increase in AP activity and mucosal thickness along with decrease in UI, suggesting gastroduodenal protective and anti-ulceroge...

Seeded pumpkins are important economic crops; the seeds contain various unsaturated fatty acids, such as oleic acid and linoleic acid, which are crucial for human and animal nutrition. The fatty acid desaturase-2 (FAD2) gene encodes delta-12 desaturase, which converts oleic acid to linoleic acid. However, little is known about sequence variations in FAD2 in seeded pumpkins. Twenty-seven FAD2 cl...

Antibacterial and antioxidant effects of alcoholic extract for the Cucurbita pepo plant were studied. Properties optical (UV-visible spectrophotometer ) morphological surface(scanning electron microscopy detection was done, antibacterial activity investigated against pathogenic microbes (E.coli, Staphylococcus aureus). Results showed highest effect crud in growth E.coli by zone inhibition diame...

Las semillas de calabaza (Cucurbita pepo L.) con una fina cubierta se llaman desnudas y han convertido en un ingrediente popular para la elaboración alimentos. Son ricas aceite, proteínas ácidos grasos insaturados. Su consumo reporta beneficios salud, incluyendo reducción del riesgo ciertos tipos cáncer. A pesar su creciente popularidad EE. UU., este insumo es importado, ahí necesidad identific...