Endothelium mediated aortic relaxation and blood pressure lowering effect of a procyanidin rich fraction of the stembark extracts of Erythrophleum suaveolens

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 62-67

  Kamanyi, A ^a   Dongmo, A B ^e   Salah, M A ^b   Jatsa, H ^e   Wagner, H ^b   Vierling, W ^c   Bopelet, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^b Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology   (Germany)

^c Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Endothelium mediated relaxation; Noradrenaline; Precontracted; Procyanidin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ASCORBIC ACID; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; ERYTHROPHLEUM SUAVEOLENS EXTRACT; NITRIC OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; PLANT EXTRACT; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROCYANIDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFRICA; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BARK; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; ERYTHROPHLEUM SUAVEOLENS; EXTRACTION; GUINEA PIG; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT STEM; POWDER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR RING; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; ERYTHROPHLEUM SUAVEOLENS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0037301455     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/phbi.41.1.62.14700     Document Type: Article

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