Effect of an extract from evening-primrose seeds on postprandial blood glucose level and its active components

Nippon Shokuhin Kagaku Kogaku Kaishi

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 180-187

  Aitani, Michio ^a   Kimura, Hiroyuki ^b   Abiru, Yasuhiro ^b   Soyama, Hiroko ^c   Murakami, Hiroko ^c   Zhang, Hui Li ^a   Sugishita, Tomoko ^a   Konishi, Yotaro ^c  

^a 1 Numata Kitagata cho   (Japan)

^b OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OENOTHERA; OENOTHERA BIENNIS; PRIMULA;

EID: 0037785438     PISSN: 1341027X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3136/nskkk.50.180     Document Type: Article

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