Plants and natural compounds with antidiabetic action

Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 314-325

  Coman, Cristina ^a   Ruginǎ, Olivia Dumitriţa ^a   Socaciu, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

Author keywords

Antidiabetic natural biomolecules; Antidiabetic plants; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861369320     PISSN: 0255965X     EISSN: 18424309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15835/nbha4017205     Document Type: Article

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