Acute and sub chronic oral toxicity assessment of the ethanolic extract from the rind of nephelium lappaceum in rats

Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 378-385

  Subramaniam, Shonia ^a   Chakravarthi, Srikumar ^a   Palanisamy, Uma Devi ^b   Radhakrishnan, Ammu ^a   Haleagrahara, Nagaraja ^c  

^a School of Mehcine and Health Sciences   (Malaysia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body weight; Liver enzymes; Organ weights; Rat toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE; NEPHELIUM LAPPACEUM EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG SAFETY; FRUIT; HEART WEIGHT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY MASS; LIVER; LIVER WEIGHT; LUNG WEIGHT; MALE; NEPHELIUM LAPPACEUM; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PANCREAS; RAT; SAPINDACEAE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84874399333     PISSN: 1816496X     EISSN: 2152100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jpt.2012.378.385     Document Type: Article

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