African medicinal plants with antidiabetic potentials: A review

Planta Medica

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 354-377

  Mohammed, Aminu ^a,b   Ibrahim, Mohammed Auwal ^a,b   Islam, Md Shahidul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Africa; antidiabetic effects; Central Africa; diabetes mellitus; East Africa; medicinal plants; North Africa; Southern Africa; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

AFRICA; AJUGA IVA; ANACARDIACEAE; ANTIDIABETIC ACTIVITY; APOCYNACEAE; ARTEMISIA AFRA; ASPILIA PLURISETA; ASTERACEAE; BALANITES; BALANITES AEGYPTIACA; BERSAMA ENGLERIANA; BIDENS PILOSA; BLACK CUMIN; CARAWAY; CASHEW NUT; CATHA EDULIS; CAYLUSEA ABYSSINICA; CHAMAEMELUM NOBILE; CRASSULACEAE; CUCURBITACEAE; DICHROSTACHYS GLOMERATA; DRUG INDUSTRY; ERYTHRINA ABYSSINICA; FABACEAE; GINGER; GONGRONEMA LATIFOLIUM; GYMNANTHEMUM AMYGDALINUM; HIBISCUS SABDARIFFA; HUMAN; KALANCHOE CRENATA; LAMIACEAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELIACEAE; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA; MORINGA STENOPETALA; MORINGACEAE; MORUS ALBA; NAUCLEA LATIFOLIA; NONHUMAN; OCIMUM GRATISSIMUM; ONION; PHYLLANTHUS AMARUS; PICRALIMA NITIDA; RAPHIA GENTILIANA; RESEDACEAE; REVIEW; RUBIACEAE; SCLEROCARYA BIRREA; STRYCHNOS HENNINGSII; SUTHERLANDIA FRUTESCENS; ZIZIPHUS SPINA-CHRISTI; AFRICAN MEDICINE; CHEMISTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ASTERACEAE; LAMIACEAE;

DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84898028726     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: 14390221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1360335     Document Type: Review

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