Genotoxicity and acute and subchronic toxicity studies of a standardized methanolic extract of ficus deltoidea leaves

Clinics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 865-875

  Farsi, Elham ^a   Shafaei, Armaghan ^a   Hor, Sook Yee ^a   Ahamed, Mohamed B Khadeer ^a   Yam, Mun Fei ^a   Asmawi, Mohd Z ^a   Ismail, Zhari ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Ficus deltoidea; Genotoxicity; Isovitexin; OECD; Oral Toxicity; Vitexin

Indexed keywords

APIGENIN; ISOVITEXIN; METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACT; VITEXIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FICUS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT LEAF; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; APIGENIN; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FEMALE; FICUS; MALE; METHANOL; ORGAN SIZE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE; TOXICITY TESTS, SUBCHRONIC;

EID: 84879298956     PISSN: 18075932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6061/clinics/2013(06)23     Document Type: Article

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