Effects of dietary Thymus vulgaris extract alone or with atorvastatin on the liver, kidney, heart, and brain histopathological features in diabetic and hyperlipidemic male rats

Comparative Clinical Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1311-1315

  Koohi Hosseinabadi, Omid ^a   Moini, Maryam ^b   Safarpoor, Alireza ^b   Derakhshanfar, Amin ^a,c   Sepehrimanesh, Masood ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Atorvastatin; Diabetes mellitus; Hyperlipidemia; Thymus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943358534     PISSN: 16185641     EISSN: 1618565X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00580-015-2070-7     Document Type: Article

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