Effect of acarbose on alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase activities in the liver of control and diabetic CBA mice

Acta Pharmaceutica

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-93

  Petlevski, Roberta ^a   Hadžija, Mirko ^b   Bajalo, Jana Lukač ^c   Juretić, Dubravka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Acarbose; Alanine aminotransferase; Aspartate aminotransferase; Diabetes

Indexed keywords

ACARBOSE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CATALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEEDING; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 32844455899     PISSN: 13300075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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