Purification of a chitin-binding protein from Moringa oleifera seeds with potential to relieve pain and inflammation

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1078-1085

  Pereira, Mirella Leite ^a   De Oliveira, Hermogenes David ^a   De Oliveira, Jose Tadeu Abreu ^a   Gifoni, Juliana Menezes ^a   De Oliveira Rocha, Raquel ^a   De Oliveira Bezerra De Sousa, Daniele ^a   Vasconcelos, Ilka Maria ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory activity; Antinociceptive effect; Bioactivity; Chitin binding protein; Moringa oleifera; Protein purification

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BINDING PROTEIN; CHITIN BINDING PROTEIN 4; INDOMETACIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENCY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORINGA OLEIFERA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PLANT SEED; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

ACETIC ACIDS; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHITIN; ENDOPEPTIDASES; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICE; MORINGA OLEIFERA; PAIN; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEOLYSIS; SEEDS;

MORINGA OLEIFERA; MUS;

EID: 80053016978     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986611797200959     Document Type: Article

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