Evaluation of safety margins of Chenopodium album seed decoction: 14-day subacute toxicity and microbicidal activity studies

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kumar, Shrabanti ^a   Biswas, Shampa ^a   Banerjee, Sukdeb ^a   Mondal, Nirup B ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM EXTRACT; PLACEBO; PLANT EXTRACT; SPERMICIDAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FUNGUS GROWTH; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; RABBIT; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TOXICITY TESTING; ANIMAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOXICITY; EVALUATION; EYE; HEMOLYSIS; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VAGINA; VAGINITIS;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; FUNGI; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; DRUG TOXICITY; ERYTHROCYTES; EYE; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEEDS; SPERMATOCIDAL AGENTS; VAGINA; VAGINITIS;

EID: 79960883873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-9-102     Document Type: Article

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