Assessing medicinal plants from South-Eastern Spain for potential anti-inflammatory effects targeting nuclear factor-Kappa B and other pro-inflammatory mediators

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 295-305

  Bremner, P ^a   Rivera, D ^b   Calzado, M A ^c   Obon C ^d   Inocencio, C ^b   Beckwith, C ^a   Fiebich, B L ^e   Munoz E ^c   Heinrich, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^d MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory natural products (AINP); Apoptosis; Castilla La Mancha (Spain); Cytokine; Interleukins; Murcia (Spain); NF B; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ASPARAGUS HORRIDUS EXTRACT; AUTACOID; BUPLEURUM FRUTICOSUM EXTRACT; CHAMAESPARTIUM TRIDENTATUM EXTRACT; CLEMATIS FLAMMULA EXTRACT; DORYCNIUM PENTAPHYLLUM EXTRACT; GENISTA RAMOSISSIMA EXTRACT; HELICHRYSUM STOECHAS EXTRACT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MERCURIALIS TOMENTOSA EXTRACT; MISOPATES ORONTIUM EXTRACT; ONONIS RAMOSISSIMA EXTRACT; PEGANUM HARMALA EXTRACT; PHLOMIS ALMERIENSIS EXTRACT; PHONUS ARBORESCENS EXTRACT; PICNOMON ACARNA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; RESEDA LUTEA EXTRACT; RETAMA SPHAEROCARPA EXTRACT; SALSOLA GENISTOIDES EXTRACT; SALSOLA OPOSITIFOLIA EXTRACT; SANTOLINA VISCOSA EXTRACT; STIPA TENACISSIMA EXTRACT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; WITHANIA FRUTESCENS EXTRACT;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPARAGUS; ASPARAGUS HORRIDUS; BUPLEURUM; BUPLEURUM FRUTICOSUM; CELL CYCLE; CHAMAESPARTIUM TRIDENTATUM; CLEMATIS; CLEMATIS FLAMMULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DORYCNIUM PENTAPHYLLUM; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG TARGETING; ESPARTO GRASS; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; GENISTA; GENISTA RAMOSISSIMA; HELA CELL; HELICHRYSUM; HELICHRYSUM STOECHAS; HIGHER PLANT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; MEDICINAL PLANT; MERCURIALIS TOMENTOSA; MISOPATES ORONTIUM; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; ONONIS RAMOSISSIMA; PHLOMIS; PHLOMIS ALMERIENSIS; PHONUS ARBORESCENS; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PICNOMON ACARNA; RESEDA LUTEA; RETAMA SPHAEROCARPA; SALSOLA; SALSOLA GENISTOIDES; SALSOLA OPOSITIFOLIA; SANTOLINA VISCOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPAIN; WITHANIA; WITHANIA FRUTESCENS;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; CYTOKINES; DINOPROSTONE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MONOCYTES; NF-KAPPA B; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SPAIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

ASTERACEAE; BUPLEURUM FRUTICOSUM; CHAMAESPARTIUM TRIDENTATUM; DORYCNIUM PENTAPHYLLUM; FABACEAE; GENISTA RAMOSISSIMA; HELICHRYSUM STOECHAS; LAMIACEAE; MERCURIALIS TOMENTOSA; ONONIS RAMOSISSIMA; PEGANUM HARMALA; PHLOMIS; PICNOMON ACARNA; RETAMA SPHAEROCARPA; SANTOLINA VISCOSA;

EID: 67649132590     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2009.04.035     Document Type: Article

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