Anti-inflammatory activity of essential oil from leaves of Myrciaria tenella and Calycorectes sellowianus

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 433-438

  Apel, Miriam A ^a   Lima, Marcos E L ^a   Sobral, Marcos ^b   Young, Maria Cláudia M ^c   Cordeiro, Inês ^c   Schapoval, Elfrides E S ^d   Henriques, Amélia T ^d   Moreno, Paulo Roberto H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais do Estado de São Paulo   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory activity; Calycorectes sellowianus; Essential oil; Myrciaria tenella; Myrtaceae

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CARYOPHYLLENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; GUAIOL; INDOMETACIN; SESQUITERPENE; SPATHULENOL; TERPENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CALYCORECTES SELLOWIANUS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MYRCIARIA TENELLA; MYRTACEAE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PAW EDEMA; PLANT LEAF; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; EDEMA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MALE; MYRTACEAE; NEUTROPHILS; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT LEAVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

CALYCORECTES; MYRCIARIA TENELLA; MYRTACEAE;

EID: 77950230616     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: 17445116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13880200903164386     Document Type: Article

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