Biflavonoids with cytotoxic and antibacterial activity from Ochna macrocalyx

Planta Medica

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 247-253

  Tang, Sharon ^a   Bremner, Paul ^a   Kortenkamp, Andreas ^a   Schlage, Christina ^b   Gray, Alexander I ^c   Gibbons, Simon ^a   Heinrich, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Biflavonoids; Cytotoxicity; Ethnopharm acology; mdr; NF B; Ochna macrocalyx; Ochnaceae

Indexed keywords

BIOFLAVONOID; OCHNA MACROCALYX EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CYTOTOXICITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG ISOLATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALPIGHIACEAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NF-KAPPA B; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT BARK; PLANT EXTRACTS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

MINK CELL FOCUS-FORMING VIRUS; OCHNA; OCHNACEAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0037362032     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-38478     Document Type: Article

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