A mixture of extracts of black and green teas and mulberry leaf did not reduce weight gain in rats fed a high-fat diet

Alternative Medicine Review

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-49

  Fallon, Elizabeth ^a   Zhong, Litao ^b   Furne, Julie K ^a   Levitt, Michael D ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NatureGen Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BLACK TEA EXTRACT; GREEN TEA EXTRACT; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MORUS ALBA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID DIET; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; RAT; STEATORRHEA; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BEVERAGES; DIETARY FATS; ENERGY INTAKE; MALE; MORUS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TEA; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 41749121956     PISSN: 10895159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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