Protective and antidiabetic effects of extract from Nigella sativa on blood glucose concentrations against streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic in rats: An experimental study with histopathological evaluation

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Alimohammadi, Samad ^a   Hobbenaghi, Rahim ^b   Javanbakht, Javad ^a   Kheradmand, Danial ^c   Mortezaee, Reza ^c   Tavakoli, Maryam ^b   Khadivar, Farshid ^a   Akbari, Hamid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b URMIA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hypoglycemic; Nigella Sativa; Rat; Streptozotocin

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLYCOGEN; PLANT EXTRACT; STREPTOZOCIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLACK CUMIN; BLOOD; CELL PROTECTION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLISM; PANCREAS ISLET; PATHOLOGY; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT SEED; RAT; TIME; WEIGHT GAIN; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CYTOPROTECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GLYCOGEN; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; LIVER; MALE; NIGELLA SATIVA; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEEDS; STREPTOZOCIN; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84881402430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-8-137     Document Type: Article

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