Antidiarrhoeal activity of Hypoxis hemerocallidea Fisch. & C. A. Mey. (Hypoxidaceae) corm ('African potato') aqueous extract in rodents

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 965-971

  Ojewole, John A O ^a   Awe, Emmanuel O ^a   Nyinawumuntu, Agatha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

'African potato'; Antidiarrhoeal activity; Aqueous extract; Hypoxis hemerocallidea corm

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; ATROPINE; CASTOR OIL; HYPOXIS HEMEROCALLIDEA EXTRACT; LOPERAMIDE; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION URGENCY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GUINEA PIG; HYPOXIS; HYPOXIS HEMEROCALLIDEA; INTESTINE FLUID; LD 50; LOOSE FECES; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; RAT; STOMACH EMPTYING;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIDIARRHEALS; FEMALE; GASTRIC EMPTYING; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HYPOXIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLANT EXTRACTS; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA; HYPOXIDACEAE; HYPOXIS HEMEROCALLIDEA; MUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 67650188533     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.2732     Document Type: Article

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