Hypouricemic and antioxidant activities of Allium cepa Lilliaceae and quercetin in normal and hyperuricemic rats

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1573-1579

  Haidari, Fatemeh ^a   Rashidi, Mohammad R ^c   Eshraghian, Mohammad R ^a   Mahboob, Soltan A ^b   Shahi, Majid M ^b   Keshavarz, Seid A ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; QUERCETIN; URIC ACID; ANTIOXIDANT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYPERURICEMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; TREATMENT DURATION; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; GARLIC; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ALLIUM; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; HYPERURICEMIA; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; QUERCETIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; URIC ACID;

EID: 58949104220     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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