Effects of oral administration of gardeniae fructus extract and intravenous injection of crocetin on lipopolysaccharide- and prostaglandin E 2-induced elevation of aqueous flare in pigmented rabbits

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 729-738

  Nagaki, Yasunori ^a   Hayasaka, Seiji ^a   Abe, Tomohiro ^a   Zhang, Xue Yun ^a   Hayasaka, Yoriko ^a   Terasawa, Katsutoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crocctin; Experimental elevation of aqueous flare; Gardeniae fructus

Indexed keywords

COPTIDIS RHIZOMA EXTRACT; CROCETIN; GARDENIA FRUCTUS EXTRACT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PLANT EXTRACT; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHINESE HERB; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORK TREE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG INHIBITION; GARDENIA; NONHUMAN; RABBIT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIOXIDANTS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; AREA UNDER CURVE; CAROTENOIDS; DINOPROSTONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS; UVEITIS, ANTERIOR;

EID: 17044420156     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X03001338     Document Type: Article

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