Hypocholesterolemic efficacy of garlic-smelling flower Adenocalymma alliaceum Miers. in experimental rats.

Srinivasan, M. R. and Srinivasan, K. (1995) Hypocholesterolemic efficacy of garlic-smelling flower Adenocalymma alliaceum Miers. in experimental rats. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, 33 (1). pp. 64-6. ISSN 0019-5189

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Abstract

Dried flower of A. alliaceum when fed at 2% level in diet for 6 weeks to experimental rats rendered hypercholesterolemic by cholesterol feeding, exhibited blood cholesterol lowering effect. Cholesterol lowering efficacy of these garlic smelling flowers was similar to garlic oil fed at 0.002% level. Animals fed A. alliaceum flowers excreted higher amounts of neutral and acidic sterols in faeces similar to onion or asafoetida fed (at 2% dietary level) rats. A. alliaceum significantly lowered the absorption of dietary cholesterol from intestine like other sulfur containing spices, viz. garlic oil, onion and asafoetida. It is inferred from this study that limitation in intestinal cholesterol absorption is responsible for cholesterol lowering effect of this flower in hypercholesterolemic animals.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	dried flower, garlic, adenocalymma, hypocholesterolemic efficacy
Subjects:	500 Natural Sciences and Mathematics > 10 Plants > 06 Trees And Shrubs 600 Technology > 01 Medical sciences > 13 Nutrition-Human
Divisions:	Dept. of Biochemistry
Depositing User:	Food Sci. & Technol. Information Services
Date Deposited:	15 Nov 2021 04:17
Last Modified:	15 Nov 2021 04:17
URI:	http://ir.cftri.res.in/id/eprint/2260

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