Effect of Caesalpina Bonducella Seeds on Blood Glucose in Rabbits
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2000-01-10
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Pharmaceutical biology
Abstract
The seeds of Caesalpinia bonducella (L.) Flem. (Cae-salpiniaceae) are sold in shops in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania, for the treatment of diabetes mellitus. A sus-pension of the powdered seed kernel in 0.5% car-boxymethylcellulose (CMC) was tested for ability tolower blood glucose in fasted and glucose-fed normalalbino rabbits. Following administration of 0.2, 0.4
and 0.8 g/kg body weight of the powder there was nodifference in areas under the fasting blood glucose andoral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) curves as com-pared to controls given CMC (P 0.05). Similarly, 0.2g/kg body weight of the powder administered for 7consecutive days had no effect on either fasting bloodglucose or the clearance of a glucose load from the
blood. However, 0.1 g/kg body weight chlorpropamidesignificantly decreased the area under the fasting blood glucose and OGTT curves as compared to con-trols given CMC (P 0.05). Thus, contrary to a pre-vious report, we could not detect any hypoglycaemic activity in the seeds of Caesalpinia bonducella grow-ing in Dar es Salaam
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Caesalpinia bonducella, Caesalpiniaceae, Rabbits
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Moshi, M.J. and Nagpa, V., 2000. Effect of Caesalpina Bonducella Seeds on Blood Glucose in Rabbits. Pharmaceutical biology, 38(2), pp.81-86.