Antihypertensive and vasorelaxant effects of cinnamomum zeylanicum stem bark aqueous extract in rats

Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Nyadjeu, Paulin ^a   Dongmo, Alain ^b   Nguelefack, Tlésphore Benoît ^a   Kamanyi, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DOUALA   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

antihypertensive; Cinnamomum zeylanicum; nitric oxide; vasorelaxant

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNEL; ATROPINE; CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM EXTRACT; GLIBENCLAMIDE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; PLANT EXTRACT; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROPRANOLOL; TETRYLAMMONIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BARK; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT STEM; RAT; THORACIC AORTA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AORTA; ATROPINE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; PLANT BARK; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROPRANOLOL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 79952331968     PISSN: 15533840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1553-3840.1490     Document Type: Article

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