Persistence of acidosis in alloxan-induced diabetic rats treated with the juice of Asystasia gangetica leaves

Pharmacognosy Magazine

Volumn 7, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 25-30

  Rotimi, Solomon O ^a   Omotosho, Omolola E ^a   Rotimi, Oluwakemi A ^b  

^a Centre for Economic Policy and Development Research   (Nigeria)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Acidosis; Asystasia gangetica; hypoglycaemic; hypolipideamic

Indexed keywords

ALLOXAN; ASYSTASIA GANGETICA EXTRACT; BICARBONATE; CHOLESTEROL; GLIBENCLAMIDE; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PLANT EXTRACT; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDOSIS; ALLOXAN DIABETES MELLITUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASYSTASIA GANGETICA; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES CONTROL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HERB; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; RAT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 79251543223     PISSN: 09731296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1296.75887     Document Type: Article

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