Effect of the crude extract of Cestrum parqui on carrageenin-induced rat paw oedema and aggregation of human blood platelets

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 445-447

  Shehnaz, Darakhshanda ^a   Hamid, Faiza ^a   Baqai, Fehmida T ^a   Ahmad, Viqar Uddin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

ADP; Cestrum parqui; Oedema; PAF; Platelet aggregation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CARRAGEENAN; CESTRUM PARQUI EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RAT; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION INHIBITION;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CARRAGEENAN; EDEMA; MALE; PAKISTAN; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLATELET ACTIVATING FACTOR; PLATELET AGGREGATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLANACEAE;

ANIMALIA; CESTRUM PARQUI;

EID: 0032814258     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1573(199908/09)13:5<445::AID-PTR477>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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