Citrus peel polymethoxylated flavones extract modulates liver and heart function parameters in diet induced hypercholesterolemic rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 306-309

  Green, Curtis O ^a   Wheatley, Andrew O ^a   Mcgrowder, Donovan A ^a   Dilworth, Lowell L ^a   Asemota, Helen N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Hypercholesterolemia; Organ function; Ortanique; Polymethoxylated flavones

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; HEPTAMETHOXYLFLAVONE; HEXAMETHYL O QUERCETAGETIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NICOTINIC ACID; NOBILETIN; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; POLYMETHOXYLATED FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; SCUTELLAREIN; SINENSETIN; TANGERETIN; TETRAMETHYLSCUTELLAREIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CHOLESTEROL INTAKE; CITRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIGESTIVE TRACT PARAMETERS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART FUNCTION; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TREATMENT DURATION; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; UROGENITAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BILIRUBIN; CHOLESTEROL; CITRUS; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; DIET; FLAVONES; HEART; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIVER; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

CITRUS; RATTUS;

EID: 84868318361     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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