Enhanced hypotensive effects of the essential oil of Ocimum gratissimum leaves and its main constituent, eugenol, in DOCA-salt hypertensive conscious rats

Planta Medica

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 376-378

  Leal Interaminense, Leylliane Fátima ^a   Leal Cardoso, José Henrique ^b   Caldas Magalhães, Pedro Jorge ^c   Pinto Duarte, Gloria ^a   Lahlou, Saad ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE ACETATE; EUGENOL; HEXAMETHONIUM; METHYLATROPINE; OCIMUM GRATISSIMUM EXTRACT;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCIMUM GRATISSIMUM; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; RAT; SYMPATHETIC TONE; UNINEPHRECTOMY; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DESOXYCORTICOSTERONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EUGENOL; HYPERTENSION; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; OCIMUM; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT OILS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMALIA; OCIMUM GRATISSIMUM;

EID: 18744369623     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-864109     Document Type: Article

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