Hypotensive effect and toxicology of total alkaloids and veratramine from roots and rhizomes of Veratrum nigrum L. in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Pharmazie

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 606-610

  Wang, Lishu ^a,b,c   Li, Wei ^b   Liu, Yonghong ^c  

^a CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Jilin Province   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERATRANIME; VERATRUM NIGRUM EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG STRUCTURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT ROOT; RAT; RHIZOME; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; VERATRUM NIGRUM;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MICE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT ROOTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; REFERENCE STANDARDS; VERATRUM; VERATRUM ALKALOIDS;

EID: 50149112620     PISSN: 00317144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1691/ph.2008.7873     Document Type: Article

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