Cardiovascular and airway relaxant activities of peony root extract

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 793-803

  Ghayur, Muhammad N ^a,b   Gilani, Anwarul H ^b   Rasheed, Huma ^c   Khan, Abdullah ^b   Iqbal, Zafar ^d   Ismail, Muhammad ^a   Saeed, Sheikh A ^c   Janssen, Luke J ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Ca2+ fluorescence; Confocal microscopy; Endothelium intact rat aorta; Guinea pig atria; Mouse lung slices; Paeonia emodi; Platelet aggregation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ARACHIDONIC ACID; ATROPINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CALCIUM ION; CARBACHOL; HISTAMINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; PAEONIA EXTRACT; PAEONIA RADIX; PHENYLEPHRINE; POTASSIUM ION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ISOLATION; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; ARACHIDONIC ACIDS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; HEART ATRIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PAEONIA; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLATELET AGGREGATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLVENTS; TRACHEA; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 56449103987     PISSN: 00084212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Y08-084     Document Type: Article

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