Aged garlic extract improves blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats more safely than raw garlic

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Harauma, Akiko ^a   Moriguchi, Toru ^a  

^a WAKUNAGA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aged garlic extract; Hypertension; Rat

Indexed keywords

GARLIC EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FORESTOMACH; GARLIC; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAPILLOMA; PLIABILITY; PULSE PRESSURE; RAT; RAW FOOD; RETICULOCYTE; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ALLIUM SATIVUM; ANIMALIA;

EID: 33644838760     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/136.3.769s     Document Type: Conference Paper

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