Antimicrobial activity, acute toxicity and cytoprotective effect of Crassocephalum vitellinum (Benth.) S. Moore extract in a rat ethanol-HCl gastric ulcer model

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Moshi, Mainen J ^a   Nondo, Ramadhani S O ^a   Haule, Emmanuel E ^a   Mahunnah, Rogasian L A ^a   Kidukuli, Abdul W ^a  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Acute, Toxicity; Antimicrobial; Crassocephalum vitellinum; Gastric cytoprotection; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

ACID; ALCOHOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; FLAVONOID; PLANT EXTRACT; SAPONIN; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; TERPENE;

ANIMAL; ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MALE; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PLANT; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH ULCER; TOXICITY TESTING;

ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ARTEMIA; ASTERACEAE; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FLAVONOIDS; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; LARVA; MALE; MICE; PLANT COMPONENTS, AERIAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SAPONINS; STOMACH ULCER; TANNINS; TERPENES; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE;

EID: 84894636446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-91     Document Type: Article

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