Effect of root-tuber extract of Flemingia vestita, a leguminous plant, on Artyfechinostomum sufrartyfex and Fasciolopsis buski: A scanning electron microscopy study

Parasitology Research

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 248-252

  Roy, B ^a   Tandon, V ^a  

^a NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FASCIOLOPSIS BUSKI; HERB; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TREMATODE; WORM TEGUMENT;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ECHINOSTOMA; FABACEAE; FASCIOLIDAE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; DIGENEA (FLUKES); FABACEAE; FASCIOLOPSIS BUSKI; FLEMINGIA; TREMATODA;

EID: 0029963338     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050104     Document Type: Article

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