Effects of Maitake mushroom fractions on blood pressure of Zucker Fatty rats

Research Communications in Molecular Pathology and Pharmacology

Volumn 112, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 68-82

  Talpur, Nadeem ^a   Echard, Bobby ^a   Dadgar, Azod ^a   Aggarwal, Sarla ^a   Zhuang, Cun ^b   Bagchi, Debasis ^c   Preuss, Harry G ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Maitake Products Inc   (United States)

^c CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bitter melon; Blood pressure; Insulin resistance; Maitake; Mushroom; Niacin bound chromium; Olive oil; Rats; Zucker fatty rats

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; MAITAKE MUSHROOM EXTRACT; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA EXTRACT; OLIVE OIL; SESAME SEED OIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNITY; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA; MUSHROOM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TUMOR GROWTH;

AGARICALES; ANIMALS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; PLANT OILS; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER;

EID: 1542531273     PISSN: 10780297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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