Traditional medicinal herbs and food plants have the potential to inhibit key carbohydrate hydrolyzing enzymes in vitro and reduce postprandial blood glucose peaks in vivo

The Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mahomoodally, M Fawzi ^a   Subratty, A Hussein ^a   Gurib Fakim, A ^b   Choudhary, M Iqbal ^c   Nahar Khan, S ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

^b Centre for Phytotherapy Research   (Mauritius)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

^d EAST WEST UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 DEOXYNOJIRIMYCIN; ACARBOSE; ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE INHIBITOR; AMYLASE; AMYLASE INHIBITOR; ANTIDESMA MADAGASCARIENSE EXTRACT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ERYTHROXYLUM MACROCARPUM EXTRACT; FAUJASIOPSIS FLEXUOSA EXTRACT; GLUCOSE; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA EXTRACT; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM EXTRACT; PITTOSPORUM SENACIA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIDESMA MADAGASCARIENSE; ANTIDIABETIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ERYTHROXYLUM MACROCARPUM; FAUJASIOPSIS FLEXUOSA; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM; PITTOSPORUM SENACIA; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; ANIMAL; ASTERACEAE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; OCIMUM; PLANT; ROSALES;

ANTIDESMA MADAGASCARIENSE; ERYTHROXYLUM; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA; MUS; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM; PITTOSPORUM;

ALPHA-AMYLASES; ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASES; ANIMALS; ASTERACEAE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; MICE; OCIMUM; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, EDIBLE; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; ROSALES;

EID: 84861063456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/2012/285284     Document Type: Article

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