Solanum nigrum: Current perspectives on therapeutic properties

Alternative Medicine Review

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 78-85

  Jain, Ramya ^a   Sharma, Anjali ^a   Gupta, Sanjay ^a,b,c   Sarethy, Indira P ^a,d   Gabrani, Reema ^a,e,f  

^a JAYPEE INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory; Antiproliferative; Antiseizure; Cancer; Epilepsy; Hepatic; Hepatoprotectant; Liver; Night shade; Nightshade; S. Nigrum; Seizure; Solanaceae; Solanum

Indexed keywords

CAFFEIC ACID; CATECHIN; EPICATECHIN; GALLIC ACID; GLYCOALKALOID; GLYCOPROTEIN; NARINGENIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTOCATECHUIC ACID; RUTOSIDE; SOLAMARGINE; SOLANINE; SOLANUM NIGRUM EXTRACT; SOLASONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; PLANT EXTRACT; SCAVENGER;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ANTIPYRETIC ACTIVITY; BLINDNESS; CANCER PREVENTION; COMA; CONFUSION; CONVULSION; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG PURIFICATION; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LIVER PROTECTION; MYDRIASIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PHYTOREMEDIATION; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SOLANUM NIGRUM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SWEATING; TACHYCARDIA; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EPILEPSY; INFLAMMATION; LIVER DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; EPILEPSY; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LIVER DISEASES; PLANT EXTRACTS; SOLANUM NIGRUM;

EID: 79955644920     PISSN: 10895159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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