Teratogenic effects of an extract of unripe Mormodica charantia fruit in rats

Medical Science Research

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 807-809

  Fernandopulle, B M R ^a   Ratnasooriya, W D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Developmental toxicity; Fetal growth; Fetal malformation; Mormodica charantia; Pregnancy; Sri Lanka; Teratogenicity

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE; MORMODICA CHARANTIA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; POTASSIUM ION; RETINOL; SODIUM ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; BLOOD TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIMB MALFORMATION; LIVER TOXICITY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PREGNANCY; RAT; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TERATOGENESIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; MORMODICA; MORMODICA CHARANTIA;

EID: 0033372268     PISSN: 02698951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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