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Article: Desert plant Retama raetam hypoglycemic in normal and diabetic rats.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- August 18, 2003
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2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The desert plant Retama raetam exerted hypoglycemic effects in normal and diabetic rats.
"The effect of the aqueous extract of Retama raetam (RR) on blood glucose levels was investigated in fasting normal and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats after single and repeated oral administration," scientists in Morocco and France report.
"The aqueous extract of RR at a dose of 20 mg/kg significantly reduced the blood glucose in normal rats six hours after a single oral administration (p
The researchers concluded, "These findings suggest that the aqueous extract of RR possess significant hypoglycemic effect in both ...