Bioactive compounds from Punica granatum, Curcuma longa and Zingiber officinale and their therapeutic potential

Drugs of the Future

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 329-346

  Ahmad, Iqbal ^a   Zahin, Maryam ^a   Aqil, Farrukh ^a,b   Hasan, Sameena ^a   Khan, M Sajjad A ^a   Owais, Mohd ^a  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; AMPICILLIN; ANTHOCYANIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; BETA LACTAM; CISPLATIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CURCUMA LONGA EXTRACT; CURCUMIN; CURCUMIN 1; CURCUMIN 2; CURCUMIN 3; CYDONIA OBLONGA EXTRACT; DEHYDROZINGERONE; DIMENHYDRINATE; DIOPYROS KAKI EXTRACT; ELLAGITANNIN; GALLOCATECHIN; GINGER EXTRACT; GINGEROL; GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA EXTRACT; HEPTANE DERIVATIVE; LANSOPRAZOLE; OXACILLIN; PLANT EXTRACT; PUNICA GRANATUM EXTRACT; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZINGERONE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTHRITIS; ASPERGILLUS; ASTHMA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLEEDING; BLEEDING DISORDER; BRONCHITIS; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER THERAPY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLIC; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMMON COLD; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COUGHING; DERMATOPHYTE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG STRUCTURE; DYSENTERY; DYSPEPSIA; FEVER; FLATULENCE; FOOD POISONING; FUSARIUM MONILIFORME; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GALLSTONE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENE MUTATION; HEART DISEASE; HEARTBURN; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEMATURIA; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTESTINE INFECTION; JAUNDICE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALARIA; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORNING SICKNESS; MOTION SICKNESS; MOUTH DISEASE; MOUTH LESION; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOSIS; NAUSEA; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PENICILLIUM DIGITATUM; PERICARP; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHIZOME; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SORE THROAT; STOMATITIS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; ULCER; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINITIS; VOMITING; WOUND;

EID: 46049106156     PISSN: 03778282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/dof.2008.033.04.1186159     Document Type: Review

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