Screening of Chinese herbal drug extracts for inhibitory activity on nitric oxide production and identification of an active compound of Zanthoxylum bungeanum

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 77, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 209-217

  Tezuka, Yasuhiro ^a   Irikawa, Shiho ^a   Kaneko, Takuji ^a   Banskota, Arjun H ^a   Nagaoka, Takema ^a   Xiong, Quanbo ^a   Hase, Koji ^a   Kadota, Shigetoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

4 O D glucopyranosyldihydroferulic acid; Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS); Macrophages; mRNA expression inhibitor; Zanthoxylum bungeanum

Indexed keywords

4 O BETA D GLUCOPYRANOSYLDIHYDROFERULIC ACID; GAMMA INTERFERON; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZANTHOXYLUM BUNGEANUM EXTRACT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CHINESE HERB; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG SYNTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCAVENGING SYSTEM; ZANTHOXYLUM BUNGEANUM;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0034888493     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8741(01)00300-2     Document Type: Article

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