Artemisia herba-alba Asso (Asteraceae) has equivalent effects to green and black tea decoctions on antioxidant processes and some metabolic parameters in rats

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 216-222

  Abid, Zakia Ben ^a   Feki, Moncef ^b   Hédhili, Abderrazek ^c   Hamdaoui, Mohamed Hédi ^a  

^a University of Tunis El Manar   (Tunisia)

^b LA RABTA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^c Centre d'Aide Médicale Urgente et de Réanimation   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Antioxidant status; Artemisia herba alba Asso decoction; Blood parameters; Trace element status

Indexed keywords

ALKADIENE; ARTEMISIA HERBA ALBA EXTRACT; BLACK TEA EXTRACT; COPPER; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GREEN TEA EXTRACT; IRON; LIPID; PLANT EXTRACT; TRACE ELEMENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTEMISIA; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEA; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASTERACEAE; BEVERAGES; BLOOD GLUCOSE; COPPER; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; IRON; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLANT EXTRACTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TEA; WEIGHT GAIN; ZINC;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA HERBA-ALBA; ASTERACEAE; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; RATTUS;

EID: 34548071715     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000104140     Document Type: Article

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