Catharanthus roseus flower extract has wound-healing activity in Sprague Dawley rats

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Nayak, B S ^a   Pinto Pereira, Lexley M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS EXTRACT; HYDROXYPROLINE; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EPITHELIZATION; FEMALE; FLOWER; GRANULATION TISSUE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RAT; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL WOUND; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND CONTRACTION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CATHARANTHUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLOWERS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33846513478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-6-41     Document Type: Article

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