Anticholestatic effect of picroliv, active hepatoprotective principle of Picrorhiza kurrooa, against carbon tetrachloride induced cholestasis.

Abstract:

:Picroliv showed a dose (3-12 mg/kg, po for 7 days) dependent choleretic activity as evidenced by increase in bile flow and its contents (bile salts and bile acids). Significant anticholestatic activity was also observed against carbon tetrachloride induced cholestasis in conscious rat, anaesthetized guinea pig and cat. Picroliv was more active than the known hepatoprotective drug silymarin.

journal_name

Indian J Exp Biol

authors

Saraswat B,Visen PK,Patnaik GK,Dhawan BN

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1993-04-01 00:00:00

pages

316-8

issue

4

eissn

0019-5189

issn

0975-1009

journal_volume

31

pub_type

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