TY - JOUR JF - iums-ijpt JO - 3 VL - 9 IS - 1 PY - 2010 Y1 - 2010/1/01 TI - Blood Glucose Lowering Potential of Stem Bark of Berberis aristata Dc in Alloxan-Induced Diabetic Rats TT - N2 - Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} The present investigation explores the blood glucose lowering potential of Berberis aristata stem bark extract (methanolic extract) in alloxan-induced diabetic rats as well as its in vitro antioxidant property. It is observed that methanolic extract of B. aristata stem bark exhibits significant antidiabetic activity in a dose-dependent manner, but not better than glibenclamide. The extract also has enough reducing power to manifest its antioxidant nature. SP - 21 EP - 0 AU - Gupta, J. Kumar AU - Mishra, P. AU - Rani, Asha AU - Mazumder, P. Mitra AD - UR - http://ijpt.iums.ac.ir/article-1-199-en.html ER -