Hypolipidaemic Activity of Methanol Extract of Aleurites moluccana

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 765-768

  Pedrosa, R C ^a   Meyre Silva, C ^a,b   Cechinel Filho, V ^a,b   Benassi, J C ^a,b,c   Oliveira, L F S ^a,b   Zancanaro, V ^a,b   Dal Magro, J ^a,b   Yunes, R A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO ITAJAÍ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE DO OESTE DE SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aleurites moliiccana', cholesterol; Flavonoids; Lipid lowering; Phytosterols

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; CHOLESTEROL; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TYLOXAPOL;

ALEURITES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FAT INTAKE; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT LEAF; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ALEURITES; ANIMALS; ANTILIPEMIC AGENTS; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; DIETARY FATS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LIPIDS; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 0036885823     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1046     Document Type: Article

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