The traditional medical uses and cytotoxic activities of sixty-one Egyptian plants: Discovery of an active cardiac glycoside from Urginea maritima

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 746-757

  El Seedi, Hesham R ^a,b   Burman, Robert ^a   Mansour, Ahmed ^c   Turki, Zaki ^b   Boulos, Loutfy ^d   Gullbo, Joachim ^e   Göransson, Ulf ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Menoufia University   (Egypt)

^c Saint Catherine ^*  (Egypt)

^d Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anticancer screening; Cardiac glycoside; Egyptian medicinal plants; FMCA assay; Urginea maritima

Indexed keywords

16BETA ACETOXY, 14 DIHYDROXY 5BETA, 14BETA CARD 20 (22) ENOLIDE; 16BETA ACETOXY, 14 DIHYDROXY 5BETA,14BETA CARD 20 (22) ENOLIDE; 3BETA O (BETA DEXTRO SARMENTOSYL) 16BETA ACETOXYL 14 HYDROXY 5BETA, 14BETA CARD 20 (22) ENOLIDE; ALCOHOL; BUFADIENOLIDE; CARDENOLIDE N 1; CARDENOLIDE N 4; CARDIAC GLYCOSIDE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACT; PROSCILLARIDIN; SQUILL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMARANTHACEAE; APOCYNACEAE; ARTICLE; ASCLEPIAS; BIOASSAY; BRASSICACEAE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONVOLVULACEAE; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENDIVE; FRACTIONATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LYMPHOMA; MEDICINAL PLANT; NERIUM OLEANDER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL SURVIVAL; EGYPT; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PROSCILLARIDIN; U937 CELLS; URGINEA;

ASCLEPIAS SINAICA; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; CICHORIUM ENDIVIA; MELIA AZEDARACH; NERIUM OLEANDER; PULICARIA; URGINEA MARITIMA;

EID: 84872898819     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2012.12.007     Document Type: Article

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