Postnatal development of pups from nursing rats treated with Gingko biloba

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 185-189

  De Faria, Dieime Elaine Pereira ^a   Borges, Luciana Valente ^a,b   Peters, Vera Maria ^a   Reis, João Evangelista De Paula ^a   Ribeiro, Luiz Cláudio ^a   E Sá, Rita De Cássia Da Silveira ^a   Guerra, Martha De Oliveira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Development; Gingko biloba; Lactation; Rat; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; LACTATION; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; SENSORY SYSTEM; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TESTING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GINKGO BILOBA; LACTATION; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

GINKGO BILOBA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 40549146260     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.2282     Document Type: Article

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