Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a serious and growing worldwide health problem and is associated with severe acute and chronic complications that negatively influence both quality of life and survival of affected individuals. It is a heterogeneous deregulation of carbohydrate metabolism. The liver is a central regulator of carbohydrate homeostasis and releases glucose according to metabolic demands. ...

Objectives: The present available drugs for diabetes management by insulin or oral hypoglycemic agents have one or more adverse effects. Search for new hypoglycemic drugs from herbal plants parts without or a minimum adverse effect is a challenges. Present study was aimed to evaluate the antidiabetic and antihyperlipidemic effect of hydromethanolic extract of seed of Tamarindus indica L coverin...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Many plant polysaccharides exhibit hypoglycaemic effect. Though the fruit of Psidium guajava is known to contain free sugars, the fruit extract showed hypoglycaemic effect in alloxan treated mice and human subjects. The present study was aimed to determine the glycaemic potential of P. guajava fruit peel extract on blood glucose level (BGL) of normal and streptozotocinind...

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Full: HTML / PDF (665K) Select Citation Anthocyanins Present in Selected Tropical Fruits: Acerola, Jambolão, Jussara, and Guajiru Edy Sousa de Brito, Manuela Cristina Pessanha de Araújo, Ricardo Elesbão Alves, Colleen Carkeet, Beverly A. Clevidence, and Janet A. Novotny pp 9389 9394; (Article) DOI: 10.1021/jf0715020 Abstract Full: HTML / PDF (119K) Select Citation Ameliorative Effects of Proant...