Hepatoprotective activity of ethanolic extract of Bacopa monnieri Linn. aerial parts against CCl4-induced hepatotoxicity in rats

Natural Product Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-67

  Ghosh, Tirtha ^a   Maity, Tapan Kumar ^b   Dash, Gouri Kumar ^a   Bose, Anindya ^a   Nayak, Siva Sankar ^c   Dash, Deepak Kumar ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHARMACY AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Department of Pharmaceutics   (India)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Bacopa monnieri L.; Ethanolic extract; Hepatoprotective activity; Histopathology

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BACOPA MONNIERI EXTRACT; BILIRUBIN; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; GLUTATHIONE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 34247144064     PISSN: 12263907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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