Diabetes mellitus is a sickness that causes death. In 1995 it ranked in the fouth place, after cardiovascular, oncological and violent causes of death. The number of patients that have this sickness is of the order of 3 to 6 % woldwide. Nowdays, diabetes is treated by the use of...
The diabetes mellitus (DM) represents one of the principal health problems worldwide, having of the highest indices of prevalence and mortality. The DM can be defined as a group of metabolic diseases characterized by chronic hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both, originating metabolic abnormalities in...
La especie Cucurbita ficifolia Bouché, comúnmente conocida como chilacayote, es una de las cinco especies del género Cucurbita que se cultiva desde épocas prehispánicas. Los frutos maduros e inmaduros, así como sus flores forman parte de la alimentación en diferentes partes del mundo y en México. Además del uso culinario,...