Gymnema sylvestre Leaf Extract: A 52-Week Dietary Toxicity Study in Wistar Rats

Journal of the Food Hygienic Society of Japan

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 8-18

  Ogawa, Yukio ^a   Sekita, Kiyoshi ^a   Umemura, Takashi ^a   Saito, Minoru ^a   Ono, Atsushi ^a   Kawasaki, Yasushi ^a   Uchida, Osayuki ^a   Matsushima, Yuko ^a   Inoue, Tohru ^a   Kanno, Jun ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

52 week toxicity study; Gymnema sylvestre leaf extract; Health food

Indexed keywords

GYMNEMA SYLVESTRE EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GYMNEMA SYLVESTRE; HEMATOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RAT;

ANIMALIA; GYMNEMA SYLVESTRE; JAPONICA; METAPLEXIS JAPONICA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 12144290784     PISSN: 00156426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3358/shokueishi.45.8     Document Type: Article

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