Antidiabetic and antioxidant activity of methanolic leaf extracts of Costus pictus D. Don in alloxan induced diabetic rats

Pharmacologyonline

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 1200-1213

  Sethumathi, P P ^a   Nandhakumar, J ^a   Sengottuvelu, S ^a   Duraisamy, R ^a   Karthikeyan, D ^a   Ravikumar, V R ^c   Malini, A ^b   Sivakumar, T ^a  

^a NANDHA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY   (India)

^b Maharaja College for Women   (India)

^c Erode College of Pharmacy   (India)

Author keywords

Alloxan; Antidiabetic; Antioxidant; Costus pictus

Indexed keywords

ALLOXAN; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; CATALASE; COSTUS PICTUS EXTRACT; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACT; RETINOL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TOLBUTAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTUS; COSTUS PICTUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; KIDNEY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; RAT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THERAPY EFFECT; WISTAR RAT; ZINGIBERACEAE;

EID: 65949122061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18278620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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