Health Drink Poisoning - An Unusual Case of Bottle Gourd Toxicity. [PDF]
J Emerg Trauma Shock, 2023 Bottle gourd, popularly known as “Lauki,” is a commonly used vegetable throughout the world including India. Its juice is considered a “health tonic” for chronic ailments by practitioners of alternate therapy and nutritionist.
Varun HS, Pandya K, Muniraju M.
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Bottle Gourd Juice: Poison or Panacea. [PDF]
Cureus, 2023 Ingestion of toxic bottle gourd juice, particularly the bitter one, may pose a significant risk to life if not treated in time. Notwithstanding its usefulness, people drink it routinely without concern for fruit quality, extraction hygiene, and mixture with other fruits. We report two cases of bottle gourd juice poisoning with severe abdominal pain and
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Bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) toxicity: a "bitter" diagnostic dilemma. [PDF]
J Clin Diagn Res, 2014 Consumption of a glass of bottle gourd juice is thought to work as a health “tonic” and part of traditional healthy living practices in India. The juice may in certain circumstances turn bitter with increased levels of the cytotoxic compound called ...
Khatib KI, Borawake KS.
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Identification of Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) OVATE Family Genes and Functional Characterization of LsOVATE1. [PDF]
Biomolecules, 2022 The OVATE gene family is a class of conserved transcription factors that play significant roles in plant growth, development, and abiotic stress, and also affect fruit shape in vegetable crops.
Feng Z +8 more
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Comparative Evaluation of Volatile Organic Compounds in Two Bottle Gourd Accessions with Distinct Fruit Shapes. [PDF]
Foods, 2023 Bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria L.) belongs to the cucurbit family and has a long history of cultivation in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, both for food and medicine.
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Forward genetic studies reveal LsAPRR2 as a key gene in regulating the green color of pericarp in bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria). [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2023 The fruit peel color is an important factor that affects its quality. However, genes involved in regulating pericarp color in bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) have not been explored to date. Genetic analysis of color traits in bottle gourd peel through
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Bitter bottle gourd poisoning: A case report and review of literature. [PDF]
J Family Med Prim Care, 2022 Bottle gourd juice is considered a panacea in traditional Indian medicine and used in various chronic diseases. Increased levels of Cucurbitacin can turn it bitter causing toxic effects in gastrointestinal system. We report the case of an elderly female who presented with shock in few hours after consumption of bitter bottle ...
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Pathogenicity and aggressiveness of Fusarium oxysporum Schl. in bottle gourd and bitter gourd [PDF]
Plant Protection Science, 2010 Fusarium oxysporum is responsible for a large range of diseases on economically important crops such as bitter gourd and bottle gourd. Pathogenicity and aggressiveness of F.
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Development and Optimization of Label-Free Quantitative Proteomics under Different Crossing Periods of Bottle Gourd. [PDF]
Curr Issues Mol Biol, 2023 Bottle gourd, a common vegetable in the human diet, has been valued for its medicinal and energetic properties. In this experiment, the time-resolved analysis of the changes in the proteins’ electrophoretic patterning of the seed development at different
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Agronomy, 2023 Powdery mildew (PM) is the main disease that afflicts bottle gourd. Previous studies on PM mainly focused on its effects on pumpkin, melon, and other crops; however, the exact molecular mechanism of bottle gourd resistance to PM remains unclear.
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