Investigation of acute toxicity, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic effect of Urtica dioica L

Pharmacologyonline

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 1210-1215

  Tekin, Murat ^a   Özbek, Hanefi ^b   Him, Aydin ^c  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Turkey)

^c YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory and analgesic effect; Carrageenan; Toxicity; Urtica dioica L

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARRAGEENAN; INDOMETACIN; MORPHINE; URTICA DIOICA EXTRACT;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAW EDEMA; RAT; TOXICITY TESTING;

EID: 66249142341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18278620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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