The anti-inflammatory effects of Curcuma longa and Berberis aristata in endotoxin-induced uveitis in rabbits

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 4036-4040

  Gupta, Suresh Kumar ^a   Agarwal, Renu ^a   Srivastava, Sushma ^a   Agarwal, Puneet ^a   Agrawal, Shyam Sunder ^a   Saxena, Rohit ^b   Galpalli, Niranjan ^a  

^a DELHI INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERBERIS ARISTATA EXTRACT; CURCUMA LONGA EXTRACT; ENDOTOXIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PLANT EXTRACT; PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; BERBERIS; CELL COUNT; CELL LEVEL; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURCUMA LONGA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTOPATHOLOGIC SKIN REACTION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; IRIDOCYCLITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DISEASE MODEL; INFLAMMATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; UVEITIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BERBERIS; CURCUMA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PLANT EXTRACTS; RABBITS; UVEITIS;

EID: 53149087081     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1186     Document Type: Article

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