Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a common disease in elderly men. Although it is a nonmalignant disease, it can have a significant impact on the quality of life of elderly men. The pumpkin seed is claimed to be useful in the management of BPH. This investigation analysed the chemical composition of pumpkin seeds and examined its effect on citral-induced hyperplasia of the prostate in Wista...

Plant seed cells amass storage proteins that are synthesized on the endoplasmic reticulumn (ER) and then transported to protein storage vacuoles (PSVs). Many dicotyledonous seeds contain 11S globulin (11S) as a major storage protein. We investigated the accumulation behaviors of pea and pumpkin 11S during seed maturation and compared them with soybean 11S biogenesis (Mori et al., 2004). The acc...

oilseed pumpkin is an introduced medicinal plant, the seeds as well as some other organs of which are being utilized in treating an array of human diseases in iran. considering the plant's significance in the health products' industry on the one hand, and the countrywide drought stresses and a lack of information on mineral nutrition of the oilseed pumpkin, the present study was aimed...

The goal of this work is to evaluate the impact CeO2/ZrO2 (CZ) nanocomposite materials on performance and emission characteristics direct injection (DI) diesel engine fueled with ternary blends pumpkin oil methyl ester (PME) neem (NME). blend B20 (10% PME +10% NME +80% diesel) various CZ blended fuels such as B20CZ25 (B20 +25 ppm CZ), B20CZ50 +50 B20CZ75 +75 B20CZ100 +100 CZ) were prepared used...

In this study, the effects of pulps obtained after cold press oil production was tested as edible fish coating material. It determined by PV and TBARS values that waste pulp prevented undesirable quality changes due to lipid oxidation. While process with black cumin, pumpkin seed poppy stopped YM development, lowest TVC were observed in groups. Sensory results showed use plant extended shelf li...

A famous painting entitled The Fruit Seller (Fruittivendola) painted in 1580 by Vincenzo Campi located in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, depicts an elegant lady vender with a lapful of peaches holding a bunch of black grapes presiding over more than a dozen different fruits and vegetables for sale (Fig. 1), including several cucurbits. A large yellow, oblate, ribbed pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L. ...

pumpkin is one the most important cultivated medicinal plants. because of high quality oil it uses as edible and herbal medicine. to find out the effects of different rates of pelleted animal manure and urea levels and some micronutrients on morphophysiological characteristics and oil yield of medicinal pumpkin, a split plot experiment based on rcbd with three replicates was conducted at the re...