Antidiabetic medicinal plants as a source of alpha glucosidase inhibitors

Current Diabetes Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 247-254

  Benalla, Wafaa ^a   Bellahcen, Saïd ^a   Bnouham, Mohamed ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Physiologie et Ethnopharmacologie   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Antidiabetic; Glucosidase; Glucosidase inhibitor; Glycaemic control; Intestine; Medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

ACOSMIUM PANAMENSE EXTRACT; ACTINIDIA DELICIOSA EXTRACT; ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE INHIBITOR; ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA EXTRACT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; BAPHIA NITIDA EXTRACT; CASSIA AURICULATA EXTRACT; COMMELINA COMMUNIS EXTRACT; GERANIUM DIELSIAUM EXTRACT; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; MANGIFERA INDICA EXTRACT; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA EXTRACT; MULBERRY EXTRACT; MURRAYA KOENIGII EXTRACT; NERIUM INDICUM EXTRACT; ORIGANUM MAJORANA EXTRACT; PELVETIA BABINGTONII DE TONI EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PUNICA GRANATUM EXTRACT; RHODIOLA CRENULATA EXTRACT; RHODIOLA ROSEA EXTRACT; RHUS CHINENSIS EXTRACT; SALVIA MOORCRAFTIANA EXTRACT; SOPHORA FLAVESCENS EXTRACT; SYAGRUS ROMANZOFFIANA EXTRACT; SYZYGIUM CUMINI EXTRACT; TERMINALIA SUPERBA EXTRACT; TOURNEFORTIA HARTWEGIANA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM EXTRACT; VIGNA ANGULARIS EXTRACT;

ACANTHACEAE; ACOSMIUM PANAMENSE; ACTINIDIA DELICIOSA; ACTINIDIACEAE; ANACARDIACEAE; ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA; ANGIOSPERM; APOCYNACEAE; ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; BAPHIA NITIDA; BARRINGTONIA RACEMOSA; BLACK CURRANT; BORAGINACEAE; CASSIA AURICULATA; CHICORY; CLEISTOCALYX OPERCULATUS; COMBRETACEAE; COMMELINA COMMUNIS; COMMELINACEAE; CRASSULACEAE; CUCUMBER; DRUG ISOLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERICACEAE; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FLACOURTIACEAE; GERANIACEAE; GERANIUM DIELSIAUM; GINKGO BILOBA; GUTTIFERAE; HARUNGANA MADAGASCARIENSIS; HUMAN; HYDNOCARPUS WIGHTIANA BLUME; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IC 50; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; JUGLANDACEAE; LECYTHIDACEAE; LEGUME; MACHILUS PHILIPPINENSIS; MEDICINAL PLANT; MEDLINE; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA; MORACEAE; MYRCIA MULTIFLORA; MYRTACEAE; NERIUM INDICUM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OCIMUM TENUFLORUM; ORICIOPSIS GLABERRIMA; PELVETIA BABINGTONII DE TONI; PINACEAE; PINUS DENSIFLORA; POMEGRANATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMULUS MORI; RHODIOLA CRENULATA; RHUS CHINENSIS; ROSACEAE; RUTACEAE; SALACIA; SALACIA CHINENSIS; SALACIA OBLONGA; SALACIA RETICULATA; SALVIA MOORCRAFTIANA; SOYBEAN; SPIRAEA CANTONIENSIS; SYAGRUS ROMANZOFFIANA; TERMINALIA SUPERBA; TOURNEFORTIA HARTWEGIANA; VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM; VIGNA ANGULARIS;

ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASES; ANIMALS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 77954667571     PISSN: 15733998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157339910791658826     Document Type: Article

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