Effect of accessions of colocasia esculenta-based diets on the hepatic and renal functional indices of weanling wistar rats

Journal of Medicinal Food

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1210-1215

  Lewu, Muinat N ^a   Yakubu, Musa T ^c   Adebola, Patrick O ^b   Afolayan, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

accession; Amadumbe; cocoyam; Colocasia esculenta; functional indices; hepatic function; renal function; toxicity risk

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CALCIUM; CREATININE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLOBULIN; MAGNESIUM; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN; URIC ACID;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARACEAE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; COLOCASIA ESCULENTA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKED FOOD; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIETARY INTAKE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; MAGNESIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; WEANING; WISTAR RAT;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; BILIRUBIN; BLOOD PROTEINS; COLOCASIA; DIET; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HOT TEMPERATURE; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; PLANT TUBERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WEANING;

ANIMALIA; COLOCASIA ESCULENTA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 77956573554     PISSN: 1096620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2009.0211     Document Type: Article

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