Mucuna Pruriens Research

Effect of antiparkinson drug HP-200 (Mucuna pruriens) on the central monoaminergic neurotransmitters. Epidemiology and treatment of Parkinson's disease in India.
Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2003 Aug;9 Suppl 2:S105-9.

The present study was designed to elucidate the long-term effect of Mucuna pruriens endocarp in HP-200 on monoaminergic neurotransmitters and its metabolite in various regions of the rat brain. The rats were sacrificed at the end of 52 weeks and the neurotransmitters were analyzed in the cortex, hippocampus, substantia nigra and striatum.

Conclusion : Mucuna pruriens endocarp significantly affected dopamine metabolism in the striatonigral tract and improved Parkinson symptoms in the 6-hydorxydopamine animal model and humans.

Ref: www.raysahelian.com/mucunapruriens.html

Beans of Mucuna Pruriens For Parkinson’s Disease: An Herbal Alternative NPF Center of Excellence Plummer Movement Disorders Center Department of Neurology;
Scientific Publications and Biomedical Communications Scott & White Clinic and Texas A&M University Health Science System College of Medicine Temple, Texas.

The importance of this particular study is not that Mucuna is an alternative to L-DOPA, rather it is that compounds occurring naturally in plants for example, may contain biologically active components that can be isolated, tested, and used to provide safer and better treatments for Parkinson’s disease.

Ref: www.parkinson.org/site/pp.asp?c=9dJFJLPwB&b=184301

Aquaculture Research
Comparative nutritional evaluation of differentially processed mucuna seeds on growth performance, feed utilization and body composition in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus L.)

The present study indicates that the inclusion of mucuna seed meal (replacement of 25% of total dietary protein of feed) after soaking in any one of the tested solutions followed by autoclaving significantly improved the growth performance and feed utilization of tilapia compared with that of the raw seeds.

Ref: www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2109.2003.00836.x/abs/

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