Improving effects of the extracts from Eugenia uniflora on hyperglycemia and hypertriglyceridemia in mice

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 68, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 307-314

  Arai, Ichiro ^a   Amagaya, Sakae ^a   Komatsu, Yasuhiro ^a   Okada, Minoru ^a   Hayashi, Toshimitsu ^b   Kasai, Mie ^b   Arisawa, Munehisa ^b   Momose, Yasunori ^c  

^a TSUMURA AND CO   (Japan)

^b Fac Pharmaceutical Sci   (Japan)

^c TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glucosidase; Corn oil tolerance test; Eugenia uniflora; Glucose tolerance test; Pancreatic lipase; Sucrose tolerance test

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; EUGENIA UNIFLORA EXTRACT; GLUCOSE; SUCRASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PLANT LEAF; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASES; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; GLUCOSIDASES; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; LIPASE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; SOLUBILITY; SUCRASE; TIME FACTORS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 0032716521     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8741(99)00066-5     Document Type: Article

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