Urginea sanguinea: Medicinal wonder or death in disguise?

Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 26-34

  Marx, J ^a   Pretorius, E ^a   Espag, W J ^a   Bester, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cardiac glycoside; Traditional medicine; Transvaalin; Urginea sanguinea

Indexed keywords

ABORTIVE AGENT; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM MAGNESIUM); ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); BUFADIENOLIDE DERIVATIVE; CARDENOLIDE; CARDIAC GLYCOSIDE; DIGITALIS; DIGOXIN; PLANT EXTRACT; POTASSIUM PUMP; TRANSCAVALIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URGINEA SANGUINEA EXTRACT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ASTHMA; BACKACHE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BRONCHITIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CYTOTOXICITY; DYSMENORRHEA; GOUT; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMPOTENCE; INFERTILITY; INFLUENZA; LIBIDO; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENSTRUATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TOXICITY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; URGINEA SANGUINEA;

HYACINTHACEAE; URGINEA; URGINEA SANGUINEA;

EID: 18144400352     PISSN: 13826689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2004.09.012     Document Type: Article

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