Clinicoepidemiological, toxicological, and safety evaluation studies on argemone oil

Critical Reviews in Toxicology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 273-297

  Das, Mukul ^a   Khanna, Subhash K ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Argemone oil; Benzophenanthridine alkaloid; Cytochrome P 450; Dihydrosanguinarine; Epidemic Dropsy; Lipid peroxidation; Metabolism; Reactive oxygen species; Sanguinarine

Indexed keywords

ARGEMONE OIL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SANGUINARINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CAT; DIARRHEA; DRUG METABOLISM; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FOOD SAFETY; GLAUCOMA; GUINEA PIG; HEART ARREST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MONKEY; MOUSE; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; RAT; REVIEW; SWINE; VOMITING;

ANIMALIA; ARGEMONE; CAVIA PORCELLUS; FELIS CATUS; MAURITIUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030968190     PISSN: 10408444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10408449709089896     Document Type: Review

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