Evaluation of nitric oxide scavenging activity, in vitro and ex vivo, of selected medicinal plants traditionally used in inflammatory diseases

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 896-900

  Basu, Subhalakshmi ^a   Hazra, Banasri ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS); Lantana sp.; Morinda sp.; Nitric oxide; Rubia sp.; Ventilago sp.

Indexed keywords

INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; LANTANA CAMARA EXTRACT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MORINDA CITRIFOLIA EXTRACT; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; RUBIA CORDIFOLIA EXTRACT; SOLVENT; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENTILAGO MADRASPATANA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG POTENCY; EX VIVO STUDY; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LANTANA; MACROPHAGE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MORINDA CITRIFOLIA; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RUBIA; SCAVENGING SYSTEM; VENTILAGO MADRASPATANA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CELLS, CULTURED; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; LANTANA; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MORINDA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITROGEN OXIDES; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RHAMNACEAE; RUBIA;

LANTANA; LANTANA CAMARA; MORINDA; MORINDA CITRIFOLIA; MURINAE; RUBIA; RUBIA CORDIFOLIA; VENTILAGO;

EID: 33750210883     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1971     Document Type: Article

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