Antidiabetic effects of quercetin in streptozocin-induced diabetic rats

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 357-364

  Vessal, Mahmood ^a   Hemmati, Mina ^a   Vasei, Mohammad ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Diabetes; Glucose tolerance; Hepatic glucokinase; Pancreatic islets; Quercetin; Streptozocin; Triglycerides

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; FLAVONOID; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LIVER ENZYME; QUERCETIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL REGENERATION; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; GLOMERULUS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INSULIN RELEASE; KIDNEY TUBULE; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0041589462     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1532-0456(03)00140-6     Document Type: Article

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