Glycyrrhetinic acid protects mice from Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia

Fitoterapia

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 241-248

  Li, Hong En ^a   Qiu, Jia Zhang ^a   Yang, Zhan Qing ^a   Dong, Jing ^a   Wang, Jian Feng ^a   Luo, Ming Jing ^a   Pan, Juan ^b   Dai, Xiao Han ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Song, Bai Lin ^c   Deng, Xu Ming ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alpha haemolysin; Glycyrrhetinic acid; Pneumonia; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HEMOLYSIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEMOLYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

MURINAE; MUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 83055180503     PISSN: 0367326X     EISSN: 18736971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fitote.2011.10.018     Document Type: Article

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