Evidence of gastro-intestinal system as an active and toxic target of sasanqua saponins extract

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-49

  Shen, Jia ^a   Cao, Cunai ^a   Su, Hui ^a   Yang, Xiuwei ^b   Wei, Zuohan ^a   Du, Lijun ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Gastro intestinal system; Sasanqua saponins extract; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CAMELLIA SASANQUA EXTRACT; SAPONIN DERIVATIVE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CAMELLIA SASANQUA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOSIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFECT; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LD 50; LOW TEMPERATURE; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIAPISM; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH EMPTYING; TOXICOLOGY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CAMELLIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GASTRIC EMPTYING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; LETHAL DOSE 50; LONGEVITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; SAPONINS; STOMACH;

CAMELLIA SASANQUA; MUS;

EID: 43849092516     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etp.2007.11.016     Document Type: Article

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