HYPOLIPIDEMIC ACTIVITY OF ALOE VERA IN HYPERLIPIDEMIC RATS
AbstractThe hypolipidemic activity of Aloe vera (Family: Liliaceae) extract has been studied in two models of hyperlipidemia in rats. In an acute model, hyperlipidemia was induced by injecting a single dose of triton WR-1339 (400mg/kg, b.w.) intraperitoneally in rats. Feeding with Aloe vera extract at the dose of 500 mg/ kg, b.w. exerted a significant lipid-lowering effect as assessed by the reversal of plasma levels of total cholesterol (TC), phospholipids (PL), triglyceride (TG) and reactivation of post-heparin lipolytic activity (PHLA). In the chronic model, hyperlipidemia was induced by feeding with cholesterol-rich- HFD in rats. The treatment with seeds extracts of Aloe vera (500 mg/ kg b.w) simultaneously for 15 days also caused lowering of lipid levels in plasma and liver following reactivation of plasma post-heparin lipolytic activity and hepatic lipoprotein lipase activity in animals. The hypolipidemic activity of Aloe vera was compared with a standard drug guggulipid (200 mg/ kg, b.w.) in both models.
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English
IJP
P. Verma *, V. Kumar, B. Rathore, R. K. Singh and A. A. Mahdi
Department of Biochemistry , Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College, Kanpur Road, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh India
pbmlbc@gmail.com
15 March 2016
04 April 2016
06 April 2016
10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.IJP.3(4).196-200
30 April 2016
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