Intestinal disaccharidases and some renal enzymes in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats fed sapogenin extract from bitter yam (Dioscorea polygonoides)

Life Sciences

Volumn 78, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 2595-2600

  McAnuff Harding, Marie A ^a   Omoruyi, Felix O ^a   Asemota, Helen N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Diosgenin; Disaccharidases; Intestine; Kidney; Sapogenin; Streptozotocin

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CITRATE LYASE; ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; DIOSGENIN; DISACCHARIDASE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; INTESTINE ENZYME; KIDNEY ENZYME; LACTASE; PYRUVATE KINASE; SAPOGENIN; SUCRASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; KIDNEY METABOLISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; YAM;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIET; DIOSCOREA; DIOSGENIN; DISACCHARIDASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; KIDNEY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

DIOSCOREA ALATA; DIOSCOREA POLYGONOIDES; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 33646040386     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2005.10.046     Document Type: Article

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