Excitatory and inhibitory effects of Paraguayan medicinal plants Equisetum giganteum, Acanthospermum australe, Allophylus edulis and Cordia salicifolia on contraction of rabbit aorta and guinea-pig left atrium

Natural Medicines

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 478-481

  Matsunaga, Kimihiro ^a   Sasaki, Susumu ^a   Ohizumi, Yasushi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardioactive plants; Guinea pig left atrium; Paraguayan crude drug; Rabbit aorta; Vasoactive plants

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG ISOLATION; GUINEA PIG; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; INOTROPISM; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PARAGUAY; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

EID: 0031451390     PISSN: 13403443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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