Safety profile of alpinia calcarata roscoe, used in traditional medicine in sri lanka;Perfil de seguridad de Alpinia calcarata Roscoe usada en medicina tradicional en Sri Lanka

Boletin Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Plantas Medicinales y Aromaticas

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 435-442

  Arambewela, Lakshmi ^a   Arawwawala, Menuka ^a   Ratnasooriya, W D ^b  

^a INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Alpinia calcarata; Hematology; Hepatotoxicity; Morphology; Organs; Renotoxicity

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL; ALPINIA CALCARATA EXTRACT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; HOT WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ALPINIA; ALPINIA CALCARATA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SAFETY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; RHIZOME; SRI LANKA; TOXICITY TESTING; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ALPINIA CALCARATA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; ZINGIBERACEAE;

EID: 81755189009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 07177917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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