Experiment 66656
Worktypes
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Prunus africana (ROSACEAE) |
| Citation | DUFOUR,B: CHOQUENET,CH: REVOL,M: FAURE,G: JOREST,R:. (1984). A CLINICAL STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF AN EXTRACT OF PYGEUM AFRICANUM ON THE FUNCTIONAL SYMPTOMS OF BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY. (IN FRENCH).. 18(3) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | TWO RANDOM GROUPS OF 60 PATIENTS EACH WERE GIVEN AN EXTRACT OF PYGEUM AFRICANUM IN ONE GROUP, AND A PLACEBO IN THE OTHER. THE RESULTS HIGHLIGHT THE PLACEBO EFFECT(50 PER CENT OF CASES), AND THAT THE EXTRACT PROVIDED AN OVERALL IMPROVEMENT IN THE EXTRACT PROVIDED AN OVERALL IMPROVEMENT IN THE FUNCTIONAL SYMPTOMS. THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO TREATMENTS WERE STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT FOR NOCTURNAL FREQUENCY, DIFFICULTY IN STARTING MICTURITION, AND INCOMPLETE EMPTYING OF THE BLADDER. A COMMERCIAL PRODUCT, TADENAN, WAS USED. |
| Dose amount | VAR |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | CHCL3 EXT |
| Gender | MALE |