Cardioprotective activity of alcoholic extract of Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.) Miers in calcium chloride-induced cardiac arrhythmia in rats

Journal of Biomedical Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 280-286

  Sharma, Ashish Kumar ^a   Kishore, Kunal ^a   Sharma, Divya ^a   Srinivasan, B P ^b   Agarwal, Shyam Sunder ^b   Sharma, Ashok ^a   Singh, Santosh Kumar ^a   Gaur, Samir ^a   Jatav, Vijay Singh ^a  

^a SURESH GYAN VIHAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b DELHI INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Cardioprotection; Tinospora cordifolia

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA EXTRACT; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART PROTECTION; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 80052293399     PISSN: 16748301     EISSN: 16748301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1674-8301(11)60038-9     Document Type: Article

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