Antioxidant and hepatoprotective actions of medicinal herb, Terminalia catappa L. from Okinawa Island and its tannin corilagin

Phytomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 755-762

  Kinoshita, S ^a   Inoue, Y ^a   Nakama, S ^a   Ichiba, T ^b   Aniya, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b Okinawa Industrial Technology Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Apoptosis; Corilagin; d galactosamine; Terminalia catappa

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CASPASE 3; CHEBULAGIC ACID; CORILAGIN; DNA FRAGMENT; GALACTOSAMINE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; OXYGEN; PEROXY RADICAL; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PLANT EXTRACT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE; TERMINALIA CATAPPA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER INJURY; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TERMINALIA CATAPPA;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; FREE RADICALS; GALACTOSAMINE; GLUCOSIDES; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LIVER; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; PROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TANNINS; TERMINALIA;

RATTUS; TERMINALIA CATAPPA;

EID: 35148813180     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2006.12.012     Document Type: Article

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