Comparative study of garlic species (Allium sativum and Allium porrum) on glucose uptake in diabetic rats
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Garlic (Allium sativum)
Overview Garlic’s current principal medicinal uses are to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease by lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, as an antimicrobial, and as a preventive agent for cancer. The active constituents are several complex sulfur-containing compounds that are rapidly absorbed, transformed and metabolized. Pooled data from numerous randomized trials suggest that garlic low...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1658-3612
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtumed.2013.04.002