Evaluation of antidiabetic and hypolipidemic effect of Cucumis sativus fruit in streptozotocin-induced-diabetic rats

Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 351-355

  Karthiyayini, T ^a   Kumar, Rajesh ^a   Kumar, K L Senthil ^a   Sahu, Ram Kumar ^b   Roy, Amit ^c  

^a Padmavathi College of Pharmacy   (India)

^b ORIENTAL COLLEGE OF PHARMACY   (India)

^c Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry   (India)

Author keywords

Antidiabetic; Cucumis sativus; Glibenclamide; Lipid profile; Strepozotocin

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; CUCUMIS SATIVUS EXTRACT; GLIBENCLAMIDE; GLUCOSE; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIDIABETIC ACTIVITY; ANTIHYPERLIPIDEMIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCUMBER; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SCREENING; FRUIT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; POWDER; RAT; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES;

EID: 77953463886     PISSN: 09746242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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