Acute and subchronic toxicological evaluation of Echinophora platyloba DC (Apiaceae) total extract in Wistar rats

Clinics

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 497-502

  Mirghazanfari, Sayid Mahdi ^a,b   Hosseinzadeh, Leila ^c   Shokoohinia, Yalda ^c   Aslany, Majid ^d   Kamali Nejad, Mohammad ^d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AJA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c KERMANSHAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Echinophora platyloba; Rat; Subchronic toxicity

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL; APIACEAE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CAPILLARY; CLASSIFICATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; FEMALE; LIVER; LUNG ALVEOLUS; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; PATHOLOGY; RAT; TOXICITY TESTING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; APIACEAE; BODY WEIGHT; CAPILLARIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; LIVER; MALE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE; TOXICITY TESTS, SUBCHRONIC;

EID: 84863913070     PISSN: 18075932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6061/clinics/2012(05)15     Document Type: Article

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