Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract: Review of Biological Actions and Clinical Applications

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 469-480

  Yoshikawa, Toshikazu ^a   Naito, Yuji ^a   Kondo, Motoharu ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GINKGO BILOBA;

ANTIOXIDANT; PLANT EXTRACT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; GINKGO BILOBA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLOOD PLATELETS; GINKGO BILOBA; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 0033302430     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.1999.1.4-469     Document Type: Review

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