Hypoglycemic activity of two Brazilian Bauhinia species: Bauhinia forficata L. and Bauhinia monandra Kurz

Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 8-13

  Menezes, Fábio De Sousa ^a,b   Minto, Andréa Barreto Mattos ^a   Ruela, Halliny Siqueira ^c   Kuster, Ricardo Machado ^c   Sheridan, Helen ^b   Frankish, Nett ^b  

^a Faculdade de Farmacia   (Brazil)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bauhinia forficata; Bauhinia monandra; Flavonoids; HPLC; Hypoglycemic activity; Leguminosae

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047165791     PISSN: 0102695X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-695X2007000100003     Document Type: Article

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