Antiinflammatory and antioxidant activity of hypericum rumeliacum Boiss. subsp. apollinis (Boiss. & Heldr.) Robson & Strid methanol extract

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 766-771

  Galati, E M ^a   Contartese, G ^a   Miceli, N ^a   Taviano, M F ^a   Sdrafkakis, V ^a   Couladis, M ^b   Tzakou, O ^b   Lanuzza, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antiinflammatory activity; DPPH test; HPLC; Hypericin; Hypericum rumeliacum subsp. apollinis; Polyphenols; Pseudohypericin

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; CARRAGEENAN; CHLOROGENIC ACID; HYPERICIN; HYPERICUM EXTRACT; HYPERICUM RUMELIACUM EXTRACT; INDOMETACIN; ISOQUERCITRIN; METHANOL; POLYPHENOL; PSEUDOHYPERICIN; RUTOSIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ISOLATION; GREECE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IC 50; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PAW EDEMA; PEPTIC ULCER; RAT; SWELLING; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CHLOROGENIC ACID; CHONDRUS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EDEMA; FLAVONOIDS; HINDLIMB; HYPERICUM; MALE; METHANOL; PERYLENE; PHENOLS; PLANT COMPONENTS, AERIAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; QUERCETIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RUTIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLUSIACEAE; HYPERICUM; RATTUS;

EID: 46849117067     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.2360     Document Type: Article

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