Antidiabetic effect of some medicinal plants of Oriental Morocco in neonatal non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus rats

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 865-871

  Bnouham, Mohamed ^a   Merhfour, Fatima Zahra ^a   Ziyyat, Abderrahim ^a   Aziz, Mohamed ^a   Legssyer, Abdelkhaleq ^a   Mekhfi, Hassane ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Ammo des pusilla; Arbutus unedo; diabetes; Thymelaea hirsuta; Urtica dio ca

Indexed keywords

AMMOIDES PUSILLA EXTRACT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ARBUTUS UNEDO EXTRACT; DRINKING WATER; GLIBENCLAMIDE; GLUCOSE; PLANT EXTRACT; THYMELAEA HIRSUTA EXTRACT; TOLBUTAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URTICA DIOICA EXTRACT;

AMMOIDES PUSILLA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDIABETIC ACTIVITY; ARBUTUS UNEDO; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEMIDIAPHRAGM; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOROCCO; NEWBORN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PHYTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; THYMELAEA HIRSUTA; URTICA DIOICA; WISTAR RAT;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APIACEAE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIAPHRAGM; DRUG SYNERGISM; ERICACEAE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; MALE; MOROCCO; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THYMELAEACEAE;

ARBUTUS UNEDO; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; THYMELAEA HIRSUTA; URTICA DIOICA;

EID: 78649952510     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: 14770903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0960327110362704     Document Type: Article

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