Endogenous levels of echinacea alkylamides and ketones are important contributors to the inhibition of prostaglandin E2 and nitric oxide production in cultured macrophages

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 8820-8830

  Lalone, Carlie A ^a   Rizshsky, Ludmila ^a   Hammer, Kimberly D P ^a   Wu, Lankun ^a   Solco, Avery K S ^a   Yum, Manyu ^a,b   Nikolau, Basil J ^a   Wurtele, Eve S ^a   Murphy, Patricia A ^a   Kim, Meehye ^a,c   Birt, Diane F ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c Korea Food and Drug Administration   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory; Bauer alkylamides; Bauer ketones; Echinacea angustifolia; Echinacea pallida; Echinacea purpurea; Fractionation; Nitric oxide; Prostaglandin e2

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; KETONE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ECHINACEA; MACROPHAGE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; SYNTHESIS;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CELL LINE; DINOPROSTONE; ECHINACEA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; KETONES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA; ECHINACEA PALLIDA; ECHINACEA PURPUREA; ECHINACEA TENNESSEENSIS;

EID: 70349912047     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf901202y     Document Type: Article

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