Mechanisms of the antihyperglycemic activity of Retama raetam in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 48, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 2448-2453

  Algandaby, Mardi M ^a   Alghamdi, Hassan A ^a   Ashour, Osama M ^a   Abdel Naim, Ashraf B ^a   Ghareib, Salah A ^a   Abdel Sattar, Essam A ^a   Hajar, Abdulrahman S ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Insulin; Intestinal glucose absorption; Retama raetam

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATASE; INSULIN; METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACT; RETAMA RAETAM EXTRACT; TOLBUTAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; SOLVENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLUCOSE ABSORPTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; IN VITRO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RELEASE; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; LD 50; LEGUME; LIVER MICROSOME; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PSOAS MUSCLE; RAT; RETAMA RAETAM; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; TREATMENT DURATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; FRUIT; GENISTA; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; METABOLISM; PHYTOTHERAPY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; FRUIT; GENISTA; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATASE; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; METHANOL; MICROSOMES, LIVER; PHYTOTHERAPY; PSOAS MUSCLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLVENTS;

RATTUS; RETAMA RAETAM;

EID: 77955051287     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2010.06.010     Document Type: Article

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