The watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. and Nakai] cultivar Crimson Tide and 7 different gourd genotypes [Cucurbita maxima, C. moschata, Luffa cylindrica, Benincasa hispida, Lagenaria siceraria landraces (Skp and Birecik), and L. siceraria hybrid (FRGold)] with rootstock potential for watermelon were grown under saline conditions (0, 4, 8, 12, and 16 dS m) to investigate the response...

NEERAJ KANT SHARMA1, PRIYANKA YADAV2, HEMANT KUMAR SINGH3 AND ANIL KUMAR SHRIVASTAVA4 1Gyan Vihar School of Pharmacy, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Mahal, Jagatpura, Jaipur, India 2College of Pharmacy, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Bagarpur, Moradabad, India 3Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Pharmacy, Lucknow, India 4Institute of Pharmacy, National Institute of Medical Sciences University, Shobha...

Bottle gourd [(Lagenaria siceraria (Mol.) Stand.] fruit is ascribed with many therapeutic effects. The present study was undertaken to explore the antihyperlipidemic effect of four different extracts viz. petroleum ether, chloroform, alcoholic and aqueous extracts from bottle gourd in Triton-induced hyperlipidemic rats and their hypolipidemic effects in normocholesteremic rats. The study is com...