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Pharmacological effects of Agapanthus africanus on the isolated rat uterus.

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The Agapanthus africanus plant is used by South African traditional healers as a phytomedicine in herbal remedies to treat pregnancy-related ailments and to augment labour. It has already been shown that an aqueous extract of A. africanus causes smooth muscle contractions in the isolated uterus and

The effects of herbal oxytocics on the isolated "stripped" myometrium model.

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Decoctions of Agapanthus africanus and Clivia miniata are used as oxytocic agents in South African traditional herbal medicine. Aqueous extracts of A. africanus and C. miniata leaves have been shown to possess similar uterotonic activities in the isolated whole uterus preparation. The uterus

Discrimination between the functional and biochemical effects of two herbal oxytocics on the rat myometrium.

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This study on the rat myometrium is the first report where the effects of herbal extracts used as oxytocics in traditional medicine have been systematically analysed in the same preparation at the level of functional (contractile) and biochemical (second messenger generation) responses. Extracts of

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