Efficacy and safety of Meriva®, a curcumin-phosphatidylcholine complex, during extended administration in osteoarthritis patients

Alternative Medicine Review

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 337-344

  Belcaro, Gianni ^b   Cesarone, Maria Rosaria ^b   Dugall, Mark ^b   Pellegrini, Luciano ^b   Ledda, Andrea ^b   Grossi, Maria Giovanna ^b   Togni, Stefano ^c   Appendino, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c INDENA S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory; Arthritis; Curcuma; Curcumin; Inflammation; Joint; Meriva; NSAIDs; Osteoarthritis; Phytosome; Turmeric

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CD40 LIGAND; CURCUMIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MERIVA; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; ANTIOXIDANT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; WALKING;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIOXIDANTS; CURCUMIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 79952253826     PISSN: 10895159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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