Effects of Teucrium polium on oral glucose tolerance test, regeneration of pancreatic islets and activity of hepatic glucokinase in diabetic rats

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-39

  Vessal, Mahmood ^a   Zal, Fatemeh ^a   Vasei, Mohammad ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Glucose tolerance test; Islet of Langerhans; Rats; Teucrium polium

Indexed keywords

GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE; LIVER ENZYME; TEUCRIUM POLIUM EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES;

EID: 0037531830     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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