Experiment 1219124
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Trigonella foenum-graecum (FABACEAE) |
| Citation | SHARMA,RD: RAGHURAM,TC: RAO,NS:. (1990). EFFECT OF FENUGREEK SEEDS ON BLOOD GLUCOSE AND SERUM LIPIDS IN TYPE I DIABETES.. 44() |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | THE EFFECT OF FENUGREEK SEEDS ON BLOOD GLUCOSE AND THE SERUM LIPID PROFILE WAS EVALUATED IN INSULIN-DEPENDENT(TYPE I) DIABETIC PATIENTS(3 FEMALES AND 7 MALES, AGES 12-37). ISOCALORIC DIETS WITH AND WITHOUT FENUGREEK SEEDS WERE EACH GIVEN RANDOMLY FOR 10 DAYS. DEFATTED FENUGREEK SEED POWDER (100 GM), DIVIDED INTO TWO EQUAL DOSES, WAS INCORPORATED INTO THE DIET AND SERVED DURING LUNCH AND DINNER. THE FENUGREEK SEED DIET SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED FASTING BLOOD SUGAR AND IMPROVED THE GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST. THERE WAS A 54% REDUCTION IN 24-HOUR URINARY GLUCOSE EXCRETION. SERUM TOTAL CHOLESTEROL, LDL AND VLDL CHOLESTEROL AND TRIGLYCERIDES WERE ALSO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED. THE HDL CHOLESTEROL FRACTION, HOWEVER, REMAINED UNCHANGED. |
| Dose amount | 100.0 GM |
| Number | 2 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | PERSON |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | SEEDS |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |