Possible anxiolytic profile of aqueous fruit extracts of a medicinal plant sea buckthorn (Hippophae Rhamnoides L. spp. Turkestanica) in experimental models

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2791-2800

  Batool, Farhat ^a   Shah, Asad Hussain ^b   Ahmed, Syed Dilnawaz ^b   Saify, Zafar Saeid ^a   Haleem, Darakhshan Jabeen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

^b Faculty of Agriculture   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HIPPOPHAE RHAMNOIDES; RATTUS; RHAMNACEAE;

EID: 76349123178     PISSN: 05563321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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