Vasodilating properties of extracts from the leaves of Musanga cecropioides (R. Brown)

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2002, Pages

  Dongmo, A B ^a   Kamanyi, A ^b   Franck, U ^c   Wagner, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DOUALA   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^c Zentrum fur Pharmaforschung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flavonoids; Hypotensive; Nitric oxide; Procyanidins; Saponins; Vasodilator

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; FLAVONOID; NITRIC OXIDE; PHENTOLAMINE; PROCYANIDIN DERIVATIVE; PROPRANOLOL; RESERPINE; SALBUTAMOL; SAPONIN DERIVATIVE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; AORTA MEDIA; ARTICLE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; HIGHER PLANT; HYPERTENSION; MUSANGA CECROPIOIDES; NONHUMAN; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT LEAF; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; VASODILATATION;

MUSANGA; MUSANGA CECROPIOIDES;

EID: 0036214009     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1012     Document Type: Article

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