Treatment of hepatitis C with milk thistle?

Journal of Herbal Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 79-90

  Chavez, M L ^a  

^a MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatitis; Liver; Milk thistle; Silybum marianum

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALPHA2B INTERFERON; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BROMOBENZENE; BUTYROPHENONE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CYANOGINOSIN LR; CYTOCHROME P450; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; GALACTOSAMINE; ILLICIT DRUG; ISONIAZID; LINDANE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PHALLOIDIN; PHENOTHIAZINE; PHENYLHYDRAZINE; PHENYTOIN; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; RIBAVIRIN; RIFAMPICIN; SILIBININ; SILYBUM MARIANUM EXTRACT; SILYMARIN; TACRINE; TERT BUTYL HYDROPEROXIDE; TOLUENE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG SOLUBILITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INSOMNIA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER REGENERATION; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PHARMACY; PHARYNGITIS; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; RAT; SILYBUM MARIANUM; SUPPORT GROUP; TERATOGENESIS;

EID: 0034771620     PISSN: 15228940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J157v01n03_08     Document Type: Article

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