Antileishmanial and Immunomodulatory Activity of Allium sativum (Garlic)
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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 Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2156-5872,2156-5899
DOI: 10.1177/2156587215623126