Acute oral toxicity and brine shrimp lethality of elaeis guineensis jacq., (oil palm leaf) methanol extract

Molecules

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 8111-8121

  Syahmi, Abdul Rani Muhamad ^a   Vijayarathna, Soundararajan ^b   Sasidharan, Sreenivasan ^b   Latha, Yoga Lachimanan ^b   Kwan, Yuet Ping ^b   Lau, Yee Ling ^c   Shin, Lai Ngit ^b   Chen, Yeng ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE INFORMM   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Acute oral toxicity; Brine shrimp lethality assay; Elaeis guineensis; Methanol extract

Indexed keywords

METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL; ARECACEAE; ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; PLANT LEAF; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; ARECACEAE; ARTEMIA; METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 78649455881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules15118111     Document Type: Article

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