Biological screening of indigenous knowledge based plants used in diarrhealtreatment

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1375-1382

  Shinwari, Zabta Khan ^a   Salima, Misbah ^a   Faisal, Rizwan ^b   Huda, Sohaib ^c   Asrar, Andmudassir ^d  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b REHMAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (Pakistan)

^c CIVIL HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^d Pakistan Council for Science and Technology   (Pakistan)

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