Chemical composition, acute toxicity, and antinociceptive activity of the essential oil of a plant breeding cultivar of Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.)

Planta Medica

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 825-829

  Venâncio, Antônio Medeiros ^a,b   Onofre, Alexandre Sherlley Casimiro ^b   Lira, Amintas Figueiredo ^b   Alves, Péricles Barreto ^b   Blank, Arie Fitzgerald ^b   Antoniolli, Ângelo Roberto ^b   Marchioro, Murilo ^b   Dos Santos Estevam, Charles ^b   Santos De Araujo, Brancilene ^b  

^a Centro de Investigação Toxicológica   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

central antinociception; central nervous system; Lamiaceae; lethal dose; Ocimum basilicum L.; peripheral antinociception

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; DIMORF; ESSENTIAL OIL; FORMALDEHYDE; MORPHINE SULFATE; NALOXONE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PROSTACYCLIN; PROSTAGLANDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ISOLATION; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOUSE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PLANT LEAF; WRITHING TEST;

ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; FEMALE; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MICE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NOCICEPTORS; OCIMUM BASILICUM; OILS, VOLATILE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

LAMIACEAE; MUS; OCIMUM; OCIMUM BASILICUM;

EID: 79957523827     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: 14390221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1250607     Document Type: Article

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