Castor oil: An update on mechanism of action

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages

  Izzo, Angelo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

diarrhoea; intestinal motility; intestinal secretion; nitric oxide; platelet activating factor (PAF); prostaglandin; ricinoleic acid

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CASTOR OIL; GINKGOLIDE B; LAXATIVE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; PLANT EXTRACT; PROSTAGLANDIN; RICIN; RICINOLEIC ACID; RICINUS COMMUNIS EXTRACT; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR ANTAGONIST;

BIOSYNTHESIS; COLON; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIARRHEA; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUID TRANSPORT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE SECRETION; MEDIATOR; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; SMALL INTESTINE; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY;

RICINUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 0030497885     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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