Antidiabetic effect of Artemisia absinthium extracts on alloxan-induced diabetic rats

Comparative Clinical Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1733-1742

  Daradka, Haytham M ^a   Abas, Mohaned Mohamed ^b   Mohammad, Mukhallad A M ^b   Jaffar, Mohamed Mousa ^b  

^a TAIBAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

A. absinthium; Alloxan; Antihyperglycemic effect; Biochemical markers; Blood glucose; Diabetes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939878198     PISSN: 16185641     EISSN: 1618565X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00580-014-1963-1     Document Type: Article

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