Nutraceutical use of garlic sulfur-containing compounds

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 698, Issue , 2010, Pages 110-121

  Touloupakis, Eleftherios ^a   Ghanotakis, Demetrios F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; ALLICIN; ALLIIN; ALLIIN LYASE; GARLIC EXTRACT; LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDE; NUTRACEUTICAL; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYSTEINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HYDROXIDE; LYASE; PLANT EXTRACT; SULFINIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE;

ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL HYPERTROPHY; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTICHOLESTEROL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ANTIPARASITIC ACTIVITY; ANTITHROMBOTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISTILLATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STABILITY; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENCAPSULATION; FREEZE DRYING; GARLIC; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; LOW TEMPERATURE; MACERATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM;

ALLIUM SATIVUM;

CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CYSTEINE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; GARLIC; HUMANS; HYDROXIDES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PLANT EXTRACTS; SULFINIC ACIDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79956307907     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7347-4_9     Document Type: Article

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