The effect of Nasturtium officinale on blood glucose level in diabetic rats

Pharmacologyonline

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 866-871

  Hoseini, Hassan Fallah ^a   Gohari, Ahmad R ^b   Saeidnia, Soodabeh ^b   Majd, Naghi Shahabi ^c   Hadjiakhoondi, Abbass ^b  

^a Institute of Medicinal Plants Iran   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Blood glucose; Brassicaceae; Nasturtium officinale; Streptozotocin

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; GLIBENCLAMIDE; METHANOL; NASTURTIUM OFFICINALE EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AQUEOUS HUMOR FLOW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; RAT; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; WATERCRESS;

EID: 77649240393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18278620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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