The effects of orally administered crude alcohol and aqueous extracts of African potato (Hypoxis hemerocallidea) corm on the morphometry of viscera of suckling rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 136-139

  Erlwanger, K H ^a   Cooper, R G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hypoxis hemerocallidea; Morphometery; Suckling rats; Viscera

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; HYPOXIS HEMEROCALLIDEA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOXIS; HYPOXIS HEMEROCALLIDEA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; POTATO; RAT; STOMACH TUBE; SUCKLING; VISCERA; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CECUM; ETHANOL; HYPOXIS; INTESTINE, SMALL; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLVENTS; WATER; WEIGHT GAIN;

HYPOXIS HEMEROCALLIDEA; RATTUS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 37048999381     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2007.07.007     Document Type: Article

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