Ameliorative potentials of cocoyam (Colocasia esculenta L.) and unripe plantain (Musa paradisiaca L.) on the relative tissue weights of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

Journal of Diabetes Research

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Eleazu, C O ^a   Iroaganachi, M ^b   Eleazu, K C ^c  

^a National Root Crops Research Institute   (Nigeria)

^b Abia State Polytechnic   (Nigeria)

^c MICHAEL OKPARA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ANTIOXIDANT; GLUCOSE; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; PROTEIN; SAPONIN; TANNIN; PLANT EXTRACT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLOCASIA ESCULENTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERGLYCEMIA; KIDNEY MASS; MALE; MUSA; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; RAT; RELATIVE DENSITY; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; URINALYSIS; URINOMETER; ANIMAL; COLOCASIA; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL DIABETES MELLITUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KIDNEY; LIVER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT; DRUG EFFECTS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; COLOCASIA; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; HYPERGLYCEMIA; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MUSA; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84881393188     PISSN: 23146745     EISSN: 23146753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/160964     Document Type: Article

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