Acute and subchronic oral toxicity of Coriolus versicolor standardized water extract in Sprague-Dawley rats

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1067-1076

  Hor, Sook Yee ^a   Ahmad, Mariam ^a   Farsi, Elham ^a   Lim, Chung Pin ^a   Asmawi, Mohd Zaini ^a   Yam, Mun Fei ^a,b  

^a SCHOOL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Coriolus versicolor; Subchronic toxicity

Indexed keywords

CORIOLUS VERSICOLOR EXTRACT; FUNGAL EXTRACT; HEMOGLOBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEDICINAL PLANT; MORTALITY; MOUTH DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGARICALES; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FEMALE; MALE; MUSHROOM POISONING; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLVENTS; TIME FACTORS; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE; TOXICITY TESTS, SUBCHRONIC; WATER;

RATTUS; TRAMETES VERSICOLOR;

EID: 80054923481     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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