Chemical composition and toxicity of Taiwanese betel quid extract

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 135-144

  Wang, C K ^a   Su, H Y ^a   Lii, C K ^a  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

8 OH dG; Alkaloids; Ames Salmonella microsome test; Betel quid; cGST; GSH; Phenolics; SCE

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE; ALKALOID; BETEL EXTRACT; DEOXYGUANOSINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; SCAVENGER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMES TEST; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIVER LEVEL; LIVER MICROSOME; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RAT; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TAIWAN;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; ARECA; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; MALE; MICROSOMES; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS; MAMMALIA; PIPER BETEL; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0032959663     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(98)00115-X     Document Type: Article

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