Effects of the extracts of some tropical medicinal plants on estrogen inducible yeast and Ishikawa screens, and on ovariectomized Wistar rats

Pharmazie

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 164-168

  Njamen, Dieudonné ^a   Magne Nde C B ^a   Tanee Fomum, Z ^a   Vollmer, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIDELLIA FERRUGINEA EXTRACT; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FULVESTRANT; MILLETTIA CONRAUI EXTRACT; MILLETTIA DRASTICA EXTRACT; NAUCLEA LATIFOLIA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PSEUDOARTHRIA HOOCKERI EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BARK; BRIDELLIA FERRUGINEA; CAMEROON; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ISOLATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MILLETTIA; MILLETTIA CONRAUI; MILLETTIA DRASTICA; NAUCLEA LATIFOLIA; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PLANT ROOT; PSEUDOARTHRIA HOOCKERI; RAT; TOXICITY TESTING; TROPICAL MEDICINE; UTERUS WEIGHT; VAGINA MUCOSA; YEAST;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; PHYTOESTROGENS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RATS; UTERUS; YEASTS;

EID: 39449110062     PISSN: 00317144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1691/ph.2008.7639     Document Type: Article

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