The inhibitory effect of herbal medicine -Dai Kenchu to (DKT)- on the colonic motility in rats in vitro

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 111-118

  Tulimat, Mohammad Alhakam ^a   Ishiguchi, Tadashi ^a   Kurosawa, Susumu ^b   Nakamura, Takashi ^b   Takahashi, Toku ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DAI KENCHU TO; DAI-KENCHU-TO; DRUG; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLON; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CARBACHOL; COLON; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0035221688     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X01000125     Document Type: Article

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