Superoxide scavenging effect of Ginkgo biloba extract on serotonin-induced mitogenesis

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 527-533

  Lee, Sheu Ling ^a   Wang, Wei Wei ^a   Lanzillo, Joseph ^a   Gillis, C Norman ^a   Fanburg, Barry L ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

5 HT; Antioxidant; Cellular hyperplasia and hypertrophy; Ginkgo biloba; Superoxide; Tyrosine phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

EGB 501; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE; SEROTONIN; SUPEROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HAMSTER; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG ARTERY; LUNG FIBROBLAST; MITOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL DIVISION; CRICETINAE; FLAVONOIDS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GINKGO BILOBA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT EXTRACTS; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS; SUPEROXIDES; THYMIDINE; TYROSINE;

EID: 0031721090     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-2952(98)00174-9     Document Type: Article

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