New insights into the acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity of Lycopodium clavatum

Planta Medica

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1040-1043

  Rollinger, Judith Maria ^a   Ewelt, Julia ^a   Seger, Christoph ^a   Sturm, Sonja ^a   Ellmerer, Ernst P ^a   Stuppner, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

onocerin; Acetylcholinesterase; Activity guided fractionation; Lyclavatol; Lycopodium clavatum; Triterpenoids

Indexed keywords

5,5' DITHIOBIS(2 NITROBENZOIC ACID); ALPHA ONOCERIN; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; LYCLAVATOL; TRITERPENE; TRITERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DRUG ISOLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FRACTIONATION; LYCOPODIUM; PLANT ROOT; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; FABACEAE; LYCOPODIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PLANT COMPONENTS, AERIAL; PLANT ROOTS; TRITERPENES;

LYCOPODIUM; LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM; ONONIS SPINOSA;

EID: 29144484712     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-873130     Document Type: Article

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