Activated charcoal is more effective than equilibrium dialysis in removing Chinese medicines Chan Su and Dan Shen from serum and activated charcoal also prevents further absorption of these agents from G.I. tract in mice: Monitoring the effect in clinical laboratory by measuring digoxin activity in serum

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 324, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 51-59

  Dasgupta, Amitava ^a   Wahed, Amer ^a   Culton, Lisa ^a   Olsen, Margaret ^a   Wells, Alice ^a   Actor, Jeffrey K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Activated charcoal; Chan Su; Dan Shen; Equilibrium dialysis; Fluorescence polarization

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; BUFFER; DIGOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHAN SU; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS MEMBRANE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MONITORING; EQUILIBRIUM DIALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; GASTROINTESTINAL ABSORPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHATE BALANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVIA MILTIORRHIZA;

ANIMALS; BUFANOLIDES; CHARCOAL; CROSS REACTIONS; DIALYSIS; DIGOXIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; MICE; PHENANTHROLINES; PLANT EXTRACTS;

SALVIA MILTIORRHIZA;

EID: 0036774931     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(02)00212-7     Document Type: Article

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