Evaluation of wound healing activity of Allamanda cathartica. L. and Laurus nobilis. L. extracts on rats

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Nayak, Shivananda ^a   Nalabothu, Poorna ^a   Sandiford, Steve ^a   Bhogadi, Vidyasagar ^a   Adogwa, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

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Indexed keywords

ALLAMANDA CATHARTICA EXTRACT; HYDROXYPROLINE; LAURUS NOBILIS EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; SULFATHIAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLAMANDA CATHARTICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIZATION; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LAURUS NOBILIS; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN CONTENT; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND; WOUND CARE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND CONTRACTION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; APOCYNACEAE; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; LAURUS; MALE; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 33646252934     PISSN: 14726882     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-6-12     Document Type: Article

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