Comparative efficacy of two microdoses of a potentized homoeopathic drug, Cadmium Sulphoricum, in reducing genotoxic effects produced by cadmium chloride in mice: A time course study

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Datta, Swapna S ^a   Mallick, Palash P ^a   Rahman Khuda Bukhsh, Anisur A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENT; CADMIUM; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SULFATE; MATERIA MEDICA;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CADMIUM POISONING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; ERYTHROCYTE DISORDER; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HOMEOPATHY; MALE; MITOSIS INDEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; STUDENT T TEST; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MUTAGEN TESTING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MATERIA MEDICA; MICE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MITOTIC INDEX; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; SPERM HEAD;

EID: 0642342461     PISSN: 14726882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-1-9     Document Type: Article

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