Pomolic acid of Licania pittieri elicits endothelium-dependent relaxation in rat aortic rings

Phytomedicine

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 464-469

  Estrada, Omar ^a   González Guzmán, Juan Manuel ^b   Salazar Bookaman, Margarita ^b   Fernández, Ana Z ^a   Cardozo, Alfonso ^b   Alvarado Castillo, Claudia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Licania pittieri; Nitric oxide; Pomolic acid; Purinergic signaling; Vasorelaxation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; APYRASE; ATROPINE; GLIBENCLAMIDE; INDOMETACIN; METHYLENE BLUE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; POMOLIC ACID; PROPRANOLOL; SURAMIN; TRITERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HYDROLYSIS; HYPOTENSION; IC 50; LICANIA PITTIERI; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR RING; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AORTA; APYRASE; ATROPINE; CHRYSOBALANACEAE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HYPERTENSION; INDOMETHACIN; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; OLEANOLIC ACID; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROPRANOLOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; RECEPTORS, PURINERGIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

LICANIA; RATTUS;

EID: 79955035358     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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