The toxicological potential of khat

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-2

  Carvalho, Félix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; CATHA EDULIS EXTRACT; CATHINONE; LIPID; PROTEIN;

ANOREXIA; BONE MARROW CELL; CARDIOTOXICITY; CATHA EDULIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DEPRESSION; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; GENOTOXICITY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHERMIA; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; LETHARGY; LIVER TOXICITY; MICRONUCLEUS; MYDRIASIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PSYCHOSIS; RABBIT; SOMNOLENCE; TOXICITY TESTING;

EID: 0038689279     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8741(03)00100-4     Document Type: Note

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