Safety assessment of black cumin fixed and essential oil in normal Sprague dawley rats: Serological and hematological indices

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2768-2775

  Tauseef Sultan, M ^a   Butt, Masood Sadiq ^a   Anjum, Faqir Muhammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Antioxidant potential; Black cumin; Fixed and essential oils; Phytochemicals; Safety assessment

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; ESSENTIAL OIL; HEART ENZYME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLACK CUMIN; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE; FOOD SAFETY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROLYTES; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MYOCARDIUM; NIGELLA SATIVA; PLANT OILS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; NIGELLA SATIVA; RATTUS;

EID: 70350185425     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2009.08.011     Document Type: Article

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