Calcium blocking activity as a mechanism of the spasmolytic effect of the essential oil of Calamintha glandulosa Silic on the isolated rat ileum

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 28, Issue SPECIAL ISSUES, 2009, Pages 174-178

  Brankovic, Suzana V ^a   Kitic, Dusanka V ^a   Radenkovic, Mirjana M ^a   Veljkovic, Slavimir M ^a   Golubovic, Tatjana D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Calamintha glandulosa Silic; Calcium antagonism; Pulegone; Spasmolytic

Indexed keywords

CALAMINTHA GLANDULOSA ESSENTIAL OIL; CALCIUM ION; ESSENTIAL OIL; HERBACEOUS AGENT; POTASSIUM ION; PULEGONE; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALAMINTHA GLANDULOSA; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DEPOLARIZATION; ILEUM CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; RAT; SPASMOLYSIS;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ILEUM; LAMIACEAE; MONOTERPENES; MUSCLE RELAXATION; OILS, VOLATILE; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RATS; VERAPAMIL;

CALAMINTHA; RATTUS;

EID: 77649245676     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4149/gpb_2009_02_174     Document Type: Article

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