Antiinflammatory evaluation of leaves of Plumeria acuminata

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gupta, Malaya ^a   Mazumder, U K ^a   Gomathi, P ^b   Selvan, V Thamil ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b ASN Pharmacy College   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARRAGEENAN; DEXTRAN; HISTAMINE; INDOMETACIN; METHANOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; PLUMERIA ACUMINATA EXTRACT; SEROTONIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; APOCYNACEAE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HINDLIMB; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAW EDEMA; PLANT LEAF; PLUMERIA ACUMINATA; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; APOCYNACEAE; CARRAGEENAN; DEXTRANS; EDEMA; GRANULOMA; HISTAMINE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN; SOLVENTS;

EID: 33751312536     PISSN: 14726882     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-6-36     Document Type: Article

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