Toxicity testing of saponin-containing Yucca schidigera Roetzl. juice in relation to hepato- and nephrotoxicity of Narthecium ossifragum (L.) Huds

Toxicon

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 140-150

  Wisløff, Helene ^a   Uhlig, Silvio ^a   Scheie, Eldri ^a   Loader, Jared ^b   Wilkins, Alistair ^b   Flåøyen, Arne ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Narthecium ossifragum; Nephrotoxicity; Saponins; Yucca schidigera

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; SAPONIN; UREA;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; LAMB; LIVER; LIVER CELL; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY TESTING; YUCCA SCHIDIGERA;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDERS; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PLANTS, TOXIC; SAPOGENINS; SAPONINS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TOXICITY TESTS; YUCCA;

ANIMALIA; NARTHECIUM OSSIFRAGUM; OVIS ARIES; YUCCA SCHIDIGERA;

EID: 38049053109     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2007.08.016     Document Type: Article

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