Biological activity of Barbados cherry (Acerola fruits, fruit of Malpighia emarginata DC) extracts and fractions

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 212-223

  Motohashi, Noboru ^a   Wakabayashi, Hidetsugu ^b   Kurihara, Teruo ^b   Fukushima, Hidetaka ^b   Yamada, Tomoko ^b   Kawase, Masami ^b   Sohara, Yoshitaka ^b   Tani, Satoru ^b   Shirataki, Yoshiaki ^b   Sakagami, Hiroshi ^c   Satoh, Kazue ^d   Nakashima, Hideki ^e   Molnár, Annamária ^f   Spengler, Gabriella ^f   Gyémánt, Nóra ^f   Ugocsai, Katalin ^f   Molnár, Joseph ^f  

^a MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JOSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MEIKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (Japan)

^d SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Acerola fruit (Barbados cherry); Cytotoxic activity; Fractionation; Malpighia emarginata DC; Malpighiaceae; Multidrug resistance

Indexed keywords

MALPIGHIA EMARGINATA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERAPAMIL;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANDIDA; CARCINOMA CELL; DRUG ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBROBLAST; FRUIT; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MALPIGHIA EMARGINATA; MALPIGHIACEAE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; CANDIDA; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; FIBROBLASTS; FRUIT; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HIV; HUMANS; MALPIGHIACEAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MALPIGHIA; MALPIGHIA EMARGINATA; MALPIGHIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 2342646216     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1426     Document Type: Review

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