Ingestion of Apios americana Medikus tuber suppresses blood pressure and improves plasma lipids in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Nutrition Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 218-224

  Iwai, Kunihisa ^a   Matsue, Hajime ^a  

^a AOMORI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antihypertension; Apios Americana; Proline; Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR); Total cholesterol

Indexed keywords

APIOS AMERICANA EXTRACT; CAPTOPRIL; CHOLESTEROL; LISINOPRIL; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; PROLINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; APIOS AMERICANA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; POWDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

APIOS; APIOS AMERICANA; RATTUS;

EID: 34047264498     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2007.01.012     Document Type: Article

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