Anti-hyperglycemic Effect of the Aqueous Extract of Banana Infructescence Stalks in Streptozotocin-induced Diabetic Rats

Plant Foods for Human Nutrition

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 83-89

  Jaber, Hwaida ^a   Baydoun, Elias ^a   EL Zein, Ola ^a   Kreydiyyeh, Sawsan Ibrahim ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Banana infructescence stalks; Caco 2 cells; Enterocytes; Glucose

Indexed keywords

MUSA; MUSA X PARADISIACA; RATTUS;

EID: 84874649816     PISSN: 09219668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11130-013-0341-5     Document Type: Article

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