Studies on antidiarrheal and antispasmodic activities of lepidium sativum crude extract in rats

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 136-141

  Rehman, Najeeb Ur ^a,b   Mehmood, Malik Hassan ^a   Alkharfy, Khalid M ^c   Gilani, Anwarul Hassan ^a,c  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

anticholinergic; antidiarrheal; Ca ++ antagonist; Lepidium sativum

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; CARBACHOL; CASTOR OIL; DICYCLOVERINE; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM EXTRACT; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; PLANT EXTRACT; POTASSIUM ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERAPAMIL;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDIARRHEAL ACTIVITY; ANTISPASMODIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG ACTIVITY; FEMALE; ILEUM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; INTESTINE CONTRACTION; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANIMALS; ANTIDIARRHEALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CASTOR OIL; DIARRHEA; DICYCLOMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; ILEUM; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; MALE; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; SEEDS; SPASM;

LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; RATTUS;

EID: 84855672495     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3642     Document Type: Article

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