A Hot Water Extract of Chlorella pyrenoidosa Reduces Body Weight and Serum Lipids in Ovariectomized Rats

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 164-168

  Hidaka, Saburo ^a   Okamoto, Yoshizo ^b   Arita, Masaki ^c  

^a Fukuoka College of Health Sciences   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c MIYABI Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body weight; Bone mineral density; Chlorella extract (CGF solution); Ovariectomized rats; Serum lipids

Indexed keywords

CHLORELLA PYRENOIDOSA EXTRACT; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; PLANT EXTRACT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; CHLORELLA; CHLORELLA PYRENOIDOSA; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLYSIS; OVARIECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; RAT; TIBIA; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-OBESITY AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; CHLORELLA; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; OVARIECTOMY; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRIGLYCERIDES;

CHLORELLA PYRENOIDOSA;

EID: 1642282740     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1178     Document Type: Article

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