Protective effect of pimpinella anisoides ethanolic extract and its onstituents on oxidative damage and its inhibition of nitric oxide in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated RAW 264.7 macrophages

Journal of Medicinal Food

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137-141

  Conforti, Filomena ^a   Tundis, Rosa ^a   Marrelli, Mariangela ^a   Menichini, Federica ^b   Statti, Giancarlo A ^a   De Cindio, Bruno ^a   Menichini, Francesco ^a   Houghton, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Apiaceae; Aromatic plant; Nitric oxide production inhibition; Pimpinella anisoides; Radical scavenging activity; Terpenes

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALDEHYDE; ANETHOLE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; ESTER; FATTY ACID; LIMONENE; NITRIC OXIDE; PIMPINELLA ANISOIDES EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; SABINENE; SESQUITERPENE; TERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANISE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APIALES; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CELL STIMULATION; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANISOLES; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; CELL LINE; CYCLOHEXENES; FRUIT; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PICRATES; PIMPINELLA; PLANT EXTRACTS; TERPENES;

APIACEAE; MURINAE; PIMPINELLA ANISOIDES;

EID: 76649140838     PISSN: 1096620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2008.0154     Document Type: Article

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