Phytomedicine
Volume 16, Issue 9 , Pages 805-813 , September 2009

Synergistic hepatoprotective effect of Schisandrae lignans with Astragalus polysaccharides on chronic liver injury in rats

  • Fei Yan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
    • Contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Qiao-Yan Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
    • Contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Lei Jiao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
    • ,
  • Ting Han

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
    • ,
  • Hong Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
    • ,
  • Lu-Ping Qin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +862125070394; fax: +862125070394.
    • ,
  • Rahman Khalid

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Sciences, School of Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L33AF, UK

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doi: 10.1016/j.phymed.2009.02.004

Phytomedicine
Volume 16, Issue 9 , Pages 805-813 , September 2009

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