Antihemolytic effect of Rooibos tea (Aspalathus linearis) on red blood cells of Japanese quails

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 365-371

  Simon, M ^a   Horovska L ^a   Greksak M ^a,c   Dusinsky R ^a   Nakano, M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Aspalathus linearis; Avian erythrocytes; Hemolysis; Japanese quails; Rooibos tea

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; ASPALATHUS LINEARIS EXTRACT; PEROXIDE; PLANT EXTRACT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMOLYSIS; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NONHUMAN; QUAIL; TEA;

ANIMALS; COTURNIX; DIET; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; ROSALES; TEA;

ANIMALIA; ASPALATHUS LINEARIS; AVES; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 0034442012     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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