Blood pressure lowering effect of an olive leaf extract (Olea europaea) in L-NAME induced hypertension in rats;Blutdrucksenkende wirkung eines olivenblätter-extraktes (Olea europaea) bei L-NAME- induzierter hypertonie der ratte

Arzneimittel-Forschung/Drug Research

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 797-802

  Khayyal, Mohamed T ^a   El Ghazaly, Mona A ^b   Abdallah, Dalal M ^a   Nassar, Noha N ^a   Okpanyi, Samuel N ^c   Kreuter, Matthias Heinrich ^d  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR RADIATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Egypt)

^c Steigerwald Arzneimittelwerk GmbH   (Germany)

^d Flachsmann Emil AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antihypertensives; EFLA 943, antihypertensive effects, rat; Hypertension, experimental; Olea europaea; Olive leaf extract

Indexed keywords

EFLA 943; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; OLEA EUROPAEA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLIVE; PLANT LEAF; PROPHYLAXIS; RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

OLEA EUROPAEA;

EID: 0036438232     PISSN: 00044172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1299970     Document Type: Article

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