Increased plasma and liver lipids in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats: Effects of yam (Dioscorea cayenensis) or dasheen (Colocassia esculenta) extract supplements

Diabetologia Croatica

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 87-92

  Omoruyi, Felix O ^a   Grindley, Phillip B ^a   Asemota, Helen N ^a   Morrison, Errol Y St A ^a  

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Author keywords

Cyanoglucoside; Dasheen; Diabetes; Lipid; Yam

Indexed keywords

COLOCASSIA ESCULENTA EXTRACT; CYANOGLUCOSIDE; DIOSCOREA CAYENENSIS EXTRACT; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSIDE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LINAMARIN; LIPID; PHOSPHOGLUCONATE DEHYDROGENASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLOCASSIA ESCULENTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIOSCOREA CAYENENSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PLANT; RAT; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; YAM;

EID: 0036328856     PISSN: 03510042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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