Lycium barbarum: A new hepatotoxic "natural" agent?

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 749-

  Arroyo Martinez, Quetzalihuitl ^a   Sáenz, Manuel Jiménez ^a   Arias, Federico Argüelles ^a   Acosta, Mileidis San Juan ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LYCIUM BARBARUM EXTRACT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ASTHENIA; CASE REPORT; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TOXICITY; LYCIUM BARBARUM; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MEDICINAL PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BEVERAGES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LYCIUM; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT PREPARATIONS;

EID: 79961126187     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: 18783562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2011.04.010     Document Type: Letter

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