The effective fraction isolated from Radix Astragali alleviates glucose intolerance, insulin resistance and hypertriglyceridemia in db/db diabetic mice through its anti-inflammatory activity

Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hoo, Ruby L C ^a   Wong, Janice Y L ^a   Qiao, C F ^b   Xu, A ^a   Xu, H X ^b   Lam, Karen S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRAGALUS EXTRACT; CALYCOSIN; CALYCOSIN 7 BETA DEXTRO GLUCOSIDE; CD68 ANTIGEN; FORMONONETIN; GLUCOSIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; ISOFLAVONE; LEUKOTRIENE F4; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; ONONIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT;

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EID: 77955793729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17437075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-7075-7-67     Document Type: Article

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