Antidiabetic effects of a dietary supplement "pancreas tonic"

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 614-618

  Rao, Ramachandra M ^a   Salem, Fathi A ^a   Gleason Jordan, Irene ^a  

^a CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Dietary supplement; Pancreas Tonic

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; PANCREAS ISLET; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EVALUATION STUDIES; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0032185442     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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