Evaluation of the gastric antiulcerogenic effects of Portulaca oleracea L. extracts in mice

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 484-487

  Karimi, Gholamreza ^a   Hosseinzadeh, Hossein ^b   Ettehad, Negin ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antiulcer; Folk medicine; Portulaca oleracea

Indexed keywords

PORTULACA OLERACEA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PYLORUS LIGATION; STOMACH ACID SECRETION; STOMACH LESION; STOMACH PH; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ULCER;

IRANIA; PORTULACA; PORTULACA OLERACEA;

EID: 3342884363     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1463     Document Type: Article

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