Inhibition of (-)-propranolol hydrochloride by its enantiomer in white mice

Forschende Komplementarmedizin und Klassische Naturheilkunde

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 309-314

  Kuzeff, R M ^a   Topashka Ancheva, M N ^b   Mecheva, R P ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Enantiomer; Homeopathy; Isomer; Propranolol; Stereoisomer

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PROPRANOLOL; PROPRANOLOL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; LD 50; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEDATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; ODDS RATIO; PROPRANOLOL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STEREOISOMERISM; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 1542270923     PISSN: 14247364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000075884     Document Type: Article

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