Antihepatotoxic and antioxidant activities of methanol extract and isolated compounds from Ficus chlamydocarpa

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1607-1612

  Donfack, Jean Hubert ^a   Simo, Christophe Colombe Fotso ^a   Ngameni, Bathelemy ^a   Tchana, Angèle N ^a   Kerr, Philip G ^b   Finzi, Paola Vita ^c   Vidari, Giovanni ^c   Giardina, Silvana ^c   Buonocore, Daniela ^c   Ngadjui, Bonaventure T ^a   Moundipa, Paul F ^a   Marzatico, Fulvio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antihepatotoxic effect; Antioxidant activity; Ficus chlamydocarpa; Flavonoids; Free radicals

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALPHA AMYRIN; ALPINUMISOFLAVONE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BETA CAROTENE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; FICUS CHLAMYDOCARPA EXTRACT; GENISTEIN(4',5,7 TRIHYDROXYISOFLAVONE); GLUTATHIONE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LINOLEIC ACID; LUTEOLIN; MALONALDEHYDE; METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACT; SILYMARIN; TROLOX C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BARK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; FICUS; FICUS CHLAMYDOCARPA; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER INJURY; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER PROTECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLANT STEM; RAT;

RATTUS;

EID: 77957903772     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1000501019     Document Type: Article

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