Analgesic and antioxidant activities of Algerian Retama raetam (Forssk.) Webb & Berthel extracts

Records of Natural Products

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 169-176

  Djeddi, Samah ^a,b   Karioti, Anastasia ^a,e   Yannakopoulou, Elina ^c   Papadopoulos, Kyriakos ^c   Chatter, Rim ^d   Skaltsa, Helen ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

^c Institute of Physical Chemistry   (Greece)

^d PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analgesic activity; Antioxidant activity; Berthel; Isoflavones; Retama raetam (Forssk.) webb

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; 3' METHYLOROBOL; 6 HYDROXYAPIGENIN; 6 HYDROXYGENISTEIN; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; BIOCHANIN A; BUTYLCRESOL; GENISTEIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; KAEMPFEROL; LUCIGENIN; LUTEOLIN; PARA COUMARIC ACID; PLANT EXTRACT; PRATENSEIN; RETAMA RAETAM EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; FABACEAE; FLOWER; FRUIT; INFLAMMATORY PAIN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; RETAMA RAETAM; WRITHING TEST;

RETAMA RAETAM;

EID: 84878459460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13076167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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