Genistein from Flemingia vestita (Fabaceae) enhances NO and its mediator (cGMP) production in a cestode parasite, Raillietina echinobothrida

Parasitology

Volumn 134, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1457-1463

  Das, B ^a   Tandon, V ^a   Saha, N ^a  

^a NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

cGMP; Flemingia vestita; Genistein; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase; Rallietina echinobothrida

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; BUTANOL; CYCLIC GMP; GENISTEIN; HEXANE; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PLANT EXTRACT; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CESTODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; EFFUSION; FLEMINGIA VESTITA; FOWL; LEGUME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILLIETINA ECHINOBOTHRIDA;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CESTODA; CESTODE INFECTIONS; CYCLIC GMP; FABACEAE; GENISTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE; PARALYSIS; PLANT EXTRACTS; POULTRY DISEASES; PRAZIQUANTEL; TIME FACTORS;

CESTODA; FABACEAE; FLEMINGIA; RAILLIETINA ECHINOBOTHRIDA;

EID: 34547748920     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003118200700282X     Document Type: Article

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