Acute toxicity study of an aqueous extract of Ficus racemosa Linn. bark in albino mice

Internet Journal of Toxicology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Jaykaran, ^a   Bhardwaj, Pankaj ^b   Kantharia, N D ^a   Yadav, Priti ^a   Panwar, Arvind ^a  

^a CIVIL HOSPITAL   (India)

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Ficus racemosa

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; FICUS RACEMOSA EXTRACT; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BARK; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FICUS RACEMOSA; FIG; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TOXICITY TESTING; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

FICUS RACEMOSA; MUS;

EID: 77953365615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15593916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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