Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in plants used in the traditional medicine of Madagascar and the Mascarene islands

Pharmazie

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 637-647

  Roeder, E ^a   Wiedenfeld, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLINDICINE; ACETYLINTERMEDINE; ACETYLLYCOPSAMINE; AGERATUM RIPARIUM REGEL EXTRACT; AMABILINE; AYAPANA TRIPLINERVIS EXTRACT; ECHIMIDINE; ECHINATINE; EUPATORIUM FLEXUOSUM EXTRACT; EUPATORIUM RIPARIUM EXTRACT; EUROPINE; HELEURINE; HELIOSUPINE; HELIOTRINE; INDICINE N OXIDE; INTEGERRIMINE; INTERMEDINE; LASIOCARPINE; LYCOPSAMINE; MONOCROTALINE; MYOSCORPINE; PLANT EXTRACT; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; SUPININE; SYMLANDINE; SYMPHYTINE; SYMVIRIDINE; TETROHOUSTINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; USARAMINE;

AGERATUM CONYZOIDES; AGERATUM RIPARIUM; AMEBIASIS; ASTHMA; AYAPANA TRIPLINERVIS; BORAGINACEAE; CATARACT; COMFREY; CRASSOCEPHALUM RUBENS; CROTALARIA FULVA ROXB; CROTALARIA RETUSA; CROTALARIA SPINOSA HOCHST; CROTALARIA STRIATA; CROTALARIA UNCINELLA LAMBK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSENTERY; EMILIA AMPLEXICAULIS BAKER; EMILIA CITRINA; EMILIA GRAMINEA; EMILIA SONCHIFOLIA; EUPATORIUM FLEXUOSUM; EUPATORIUM RIPARIUM; FLATULENCE; GASTRITIS; HEART PALPITATION; HELIOTROPIUM AMPLEXICAULE; HELIOTROPIUM INDICUM; HEMATURIA; INDIGESTION; MADAGASCAR; MASCARENE; MAURITIUS; MEDICINAL PLANT; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLEURISY; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SENECIO ADSCENDENS BOJER; SENECIO AMBAVILLA; SENECIO BOJERI; SENECIO ERECHTITIOIDES; SENECIO HUBERTIA; SENECIO LAMARCKIANUS BULLOCK; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRICHODESMA ZEYLANICUM;

ANIMALS; APOCYNACEAE; ASTERACEAE; BORAGINACEAE; FABACEAE; HUMANS; MADAGASCAR; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS;

EID: 84055217441     PISSN: 00317144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1691/ph.2011.1572     Document Type: Review

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