Therapeutic efficacy of pycnogenol in experimental inflammatory bowel diseases

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1027-1028

  Mochizuki, Miyako ^a   Hasegawa, Noboru ^a  

^a NAGOYA BUNRI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2,4,6 Trinitorobenzene sulfonic acid; Enteral nutrition; Inflammatory bowel disease; Myeloperoxidase; Pycnogenol

Indexed keywords

MYELOPEROXIDASE; PYCNOGENOL; TRINITROBENZENESULFONIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLON INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ELEMENTAL DIET; ENTERIC FEEDING; ENTERITIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLAVONOIDS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; PINUS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRINITROBENZENESULFONIC ACID;

EID: 14044256420     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1611     Document Type: Article

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