Open AccessEffect of African Walnut (Tetracarpidium Conophorum) on Lipid Profile and Glucose Level in Albino Rats
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advancements in journal of urology and nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2689-8616
DOI - 10.33140/ajun.02.01.08
Subject(s) - lipid profile , analysis of variance , statistical significance , cholesterol , total cholesterol , diabetes mellitus , one way analysis of variance , plasma glucose , statistical analysis , zoology , biology , medicine , traditional medicine , endocrinology , statistics , mathematics
This study was designed to investigate changes in lipid profile and glucose levels in twenty albino rats fed with African walnut.The twenty albino rats were divided into four groups with five animals in each group. Group 1 were placed on normal diet, group2,3 and 4 were given 1% cholesterol,1%cholesterol and 1% African walnut seed powder, and 1% cholesterol and 5% walnutseed powder respectively. The level of serum lipid and plasma glucose was carried out by spectrophotometric method. Theresults were analyzed for statistical significance using analysis of variance ANOVA, p-value < 0.05 were considered statisticalsignificant. The level of total cholesterol increased in group 2(164.60 ± 7.09g) when compared to control (160.20±2.28g) atp<0.05.While a significant increase was seen in mean value of group 2(220.00±33.918mg/dl) and group 3(120.00±36.74mg/dl) when compared to value of control (66.0±11.40mg/dl). Hence these observation indicate that supplementation of Africanwalnut seed could be beneficial to patient with cardiovascular disease and diabetes.