Antioxidant and Antihypertensive Activity of Extract from Thymus serpyllum L. in Experimental Hypertension

Plant Foods for Human Nutrition

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 235-240

  Mihailovic Stanojevic, N ^a   Belscak Cvitanovic A ^b   Grujic Milanovic J ^a   Ivanov, M ^a   Jovović, Dj ^a   Bugarski, D ^a   Miloradovic Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Blood pressure; Hypertension; Mediterranean diet; Nitric oxide; Peripheral resistance; Rosmarinic acid; Spontaneously hypertensive rats; Wild thyme

Indexed keywords

LAMIACEAE; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; THYMUS (THYME); THYMUS PRAECOX ARCTICUS; THYMUS SERPYLLUM; THYMUS VULGARIS;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; CAFFEIC ACID; CAFFEIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CINNAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DEPSIDE; FERRIC ION; FLAVONOID; GALLIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SCAVENGER 100; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; ROSMARINIC ACID; SCAVENGER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIET THERAPY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; PHYTOTHERAPY; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; THYMUS (PLANT); WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CAFFEIC ACIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CINNAMATES; DEPSIDES; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FLAVONOIDS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GALLIC ACID; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHENOLS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, WISTAR; THYMUS PLANT;

EID: 84883296822     PISSN: 09219668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11130-013-0368-7     Document Type: Article

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