THE RESEARCHERS FROM
DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY
UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA
NNSUKA ,ENUGU STATE AND DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY
MICHAEL OKPALA UNIVERSITY
OF AGRICULTURE ,UMUDIKE
ABIA STATE . STUDIED THE EFFECT
OF THE AQUEOUS EXTRACT OF THE
LEAVES OF TELFAIRIA
OCCIDENTALIS [FLUTED PUMPKIN]
ON SOME HAEMATOLOGICAL INDICES , SPERM PARAMETERS
AND BLOOD GLUCOSE
IN MALE ALBINO
RATS. THE EXPERIMENT
WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS.
IN THE FIRST
PART, 12 MALE
RATS WERE DIVIDED
INTO TWO GROUPS
OF SIX RATS
EACH. GROUP 1 RATS SERVED AS CONTROL
AND WERE GIVEN
TO ML/KG OF
NORMAL SALINE WHILE
THE GROUP 2
RATS WERE TREATED
WITH 200MG/KG OF
THE AQUEOUS EXTRACT
FOR TWO WEEK.
AT THE END OF
THE TREATMENT PERIOD,
HAEMATOLOGICAL INDICES [PACKED
CELL VOLUME, HAEMOGLOBIN CONCENTRATION, RED
AND WHITE BLOOD
CELL COUNTS],SPERM PARAMETERS [SPERM
MOTILITY,VIABILITY AND COUNTS]
AND BLOOD GLUCOSE
WERE DETERMINED.
IN THE
SECOND PART OF
THE EXPERIMENT, 24
MALE RATS WERE
DIVIDED INTO FOUR
GROUPS OF SIX
RAT EACH. GROUP
1 RATS SERVED
AS CONTROL WHILE
GROUPS 2,3 AND
4 RATS WERE
GIVEN 200MG/KG OF
THE EXTRACT FOR
5,7 AND 14
DAYS, RESPECTIVELY. HAEMATOLOGICAL INDICES
WERE DETERMINED IN
THESE RATS
AT THE END
OF THE TREATMENT. THE
RESULTS SHOWED
THAT T.OCCIDENTALIS SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED
ALL THE HAEMATOLOGICAL INDICIE
AND SPERM PARAMETERS: IN
CONTRACT, HOWEVER, THE
EXTRACT SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED
THE BLOOD GLUCOSE
LEVELS. THE RESULT
ALSO SHOWED THAT
THE INCREASE IN
THE HAEMOTOLOGICAL INDICES
STARTED AFTER THE
SEVENTH DAY OF
TREATMENT.THE RESEACHER THEREFORE
POINTED OUT THAT
FOOD PREPARED WITH
FRUTED PUMPKIN ( UGU ) IN IBO LEAVES AND SEEDS REDUCE
BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVELS AND
STOP CANCER
SOURCE:
THE GURDIANS,THURSDAY
2, 2012
