Sub-acute Toxicity of Aqueous Extracts of Tephrosia vogelii, Vernonia amygdalina and Senna occidentalis in Rats
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Sub-acute Toxicity of Aqueous Extracts of Tephrosia vogelii, Vernonia amygdalina and Senna occidentalis in Rats Immaculate Nabukenya1*, Chris Rubaire-Akiiki1, Denis Mugizi1, John Kateregga1, Deogracious Olila1 and Johan Höglund2 1College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda 2Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health, Section for Parasitology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7063, Uppsala, Sweden
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تاریخ انتشار 2014