Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used in the management of diabetes mellitus in the Urmia, Northwest Iran

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue S1, 2014, Pages S348-S354

  Bahmani, Mahmoud ^a   Zargaran, Arman ^b   Rafieian Kopaei, Mahmoud ^c   Saki, Kourosh ^d  

^a LORESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Ethnomedicine; Iran; Urmia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908216116     PISSN: 19957645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1995-7645(14)60257-1     Document Type: Article

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