STUDIES ON HEPATOPROTECTIVE ACTIVITY OF VITEX LEUCOXYLON L.

Vitex leucoxylon is known to possess anti inflammatory activity. It was accidentally observed that local people of some regions use the leaves of vitex leucoxylon in jaundice and other liver ailments. There was no report of pharma-cological screening on liver. Hepatoprotective activity of the alcoho...

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Autores principales: Rao, R.V. Krishna, Jena, Ranjit, Rao, P. Mallikarjuna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3331102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22556833
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description Vitex leucoxylon is known to possess anti inflammatory activity. It was accidentally observed that local people of some regions use the leaves of vitex leucoxylon in jaundice and other liver ailments. There was no report of pharma-cological screening on liver. Hepatoprotective activity of the alcoholic extract of the leaves of vitex leucoxylon was found to be effective in protecting the liver from hepatotoxic substances.
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spelling pubmed-33311022012-04-27 STUDIES ON HEPATOPROTECTIVE ACTIVITY OF VITEX LEUCOXYLON L. Rao, R.V. Krishna Jena, Ranjit Rao, P. Mallikarjuna Anc Sci Life Original Article Vitex leucoxylon is known to possess anti inflammatory activity. It was accidentally observed that local people of some regions use the leaves of vitex leucoxylon in jaundice and other liver ailments. There was no report of pharma-cological screening on liver. Hepatoprotective activity of the alcoholic extract of the leaves of vitex leucoxylon was found to be effective in protecting the liver from hepatotoxic substances. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 1997 /pmc/articles/PMC3331102/ /pubmed/22556833 Text en Copyright: © Ancient Science of Life http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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