Anti-inflammatory activity of aqueous extracts of five Costa Rican medicinal plants in Sprague-Dawley rats

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 723-727

  Badilla, Beatriz ^a   Mora, Gerardo ^a   Poveda, Luis Jorge ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Anti inflammmatory agent; Asteraceae; Edema; Loasaceae; Medicinal plants; Urticaceae

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CARRAGEENAN; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COSTA RICA; DRUG SCREENING; EDEMA; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; PHYTOTHERAPY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CARRAGEENAN; COSTA RICA; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; EDEMA; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MALE; MICE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0033286599     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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