Effects of Thymus hirtus sp. algeriensis Boiss. et Reut. (Lamiaceae) essential oil on healing gastric ulcers according to sex

Lipids in Health and Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Guesmi, Fatma ^a   Ali, Manel Ben ^a   Barkaoui, Taha ^a   Tahri, Wiem ^a   Mejri, Mondher ^b   Ben Attia, Mossadok ^a   Bellamine, Houda ^c   Landoulsi, Ahmed ^a  

^a University of Carthage   (Tunisia)

^b Higher Institute of Technological Studies (ISET)   (Tunisia)

^c Service of Anatomo Pathology of Menzel Bourguiba   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; Gastric ulcers; HCl ethanol; Thymus algeriensis

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; ESSENTIAL OIL; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; OMEPRAZOLE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; PLANT EXTRACT;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LAMIACEAE; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PH; PLANT LEAF; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH ACID SECRETION; STOMACH MUCUS; STOMACH ULCER; THYMUS HIRTUS ALGERIENSIS; ULCER HEALING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG SCREENING; ENZYMOLOGY; KIDNEY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH MUCOSA; THYMUS (PLANT); WISTAR RAT;

LAMIACEAE; THYMUS (THYME); THYMUS HIRTUS;

ANIMALS; CATALASE; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; KIDNEY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; MALE; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS, WISTAR; STOMACH ULCER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THYMUS PLANT;

EID: 84908209212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476511X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-511X-13-138     Document Type: Article

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