Toxicological evaluation by in vitro and in vivo assays of an aqueous extract prepared from Echinodorus macrophyllus leaves

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 189-198

  Da Costa Lopes, Leonardo ^a   Albano, Franco ^a   Augusto Travassos Laranja, Gustavo ^a   Marques Alves, Luciano ^a   Fernando Martins E Silva, Luis ^a   Poubel De Souza, Gabriele ^a   De Magalhães Araujo, Isabela ^a   Firmino Nogueira Neto, José ^b   Felzenszwalb, Israel ^a   Kovary, Karla ^a  

^a Department of Physiological Sciences   (Brazil)

^b Hospital Pedro Ernesto   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aqueous extract; Comet assay; Echinodorus macrophyllus; Genotoxicity; Mutagenicity

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; ECHINODORUS MACROPHYLLUS EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MICROSOME; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMAN; MALE; MICE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; ORGAN WEIGHT; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RATS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ECHINODORUS MACROPHYLLUS;

EID: 0034674893     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(00)00220-4     Document Type: Article

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