Fermented wheat germ extract (avemar) in the treatment of cardiac remodeling and metabolic symptoms in rats

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Brown, Lindsay ^a   Iyer, Abishek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVEMAR; COLLAGEN; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE ACETATE; MALONALDEHYDE; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CARDIAC REMODELLING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERMENTED PRODUCT; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HYPERTENSION; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID DIET; MACROPHAGE; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WHEAT GERM;

EID: 79952211179     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nep090     Document Type: Article

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