The effect of interaction of Rauwolfia vomitoria root bark extract with vitamin E on rats’ liver enzymes

Authors : Monday İsaiah AKPANABIATU, Friday Effiong UBOH, Theresa Bassey EKANEM, İmeh Ben UMOH

Pages : 189-194

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Publication Date : 2009-12-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In our previous paper we demonstrated the influence of Rauwolfia vomitoria root bark extract on cardiac enzymes of normal Wistar rats and the effectiveness of this root bark as a source of antihypertensive agent, as determined by the marker enzymes, would be a useful index for the toxicity of this plant in clinical application. In this paper we present the results of the effect of Rauwolfia vomitoria root bark extract and its interaction with vitamin E on the liver function enzymes, such as alkaline phosphatase insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(ALP);, alanine amino transferase insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(ALT);, aspartate amino transferase insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(AST);, gamma glutamyl transferase insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(g-GT);, and the histological architectures of the liver tissues of normal animals. The results showed significant insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(P
Keywords : Key words Rauwolfia vomitoria, root bark, vitamin E, liver enzymes, histopathology