Antioxidant action of Tinospora cordifolia root extract in alloxan diabetic rats

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 213-218

  Prince, P Stanely Mainzen ^a   Menon, Venugopal P ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Alloxan diabetes; Antioxidant; Aqueous extract; Tinospora cordifolia

Indexed keywords

ALLOXAN; CATALASE; GLIBENCLAMIDE; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE; INSULIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ALLOXAN; ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CATALASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUTATHIONE; MALE; MEDICINE, AYURVEDIC; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

FELIS CATUS; TINOSPORA; TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA;

EID: 0035019014     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.707     Document Type: Article

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