TY - JOUR AU - Amat, Nurmuhammat AU - Amat, Raziya AU - Abdureyim, Sajida AU - Hoxur, Parida AU - Osman, Zulpiya AU - Mamut, Dolkun AU - Kijjoa, Anake PY - 2014 DA - 2014/01/21 TI - Aqueous extract of dioscorea opposita thunb. normalizes the hypertension in 2K1C hypertensive rats JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 36 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Dioscorea opposita Thunb. (Huai Shan Yao, DOT), a common staple food in China, has been used for more than 2000 years in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to treat different systemic diseases including hypertension. The objective of this study was to investigate the possible antihypertensive effects of the aqueous extract of (DOT) in renovascular hypertensive rats as well as the mechanism in reducing blood pressure. SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-14-36 DO - 10.1186/1472-6882-14-36 ID - Amat2014 ER -