Crocetin, a carotenoid from Gardenia jasminoides Ellis, protects against hypertension and cerebral thrombogenesis in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1315-1319

  Higashino, Saori ^a   Sasaki, Yasuto ^a   Giddings, John C ^b   Hyodo, Kanae ^a   Sakata, Shigeko Fujimoto ^a   Matsuda, Koichi ^a   Horikawa, Yoko ^a   Yamamoto, Junichiro ^a  

^a KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Crocetin; Nitric oxide; Stroke prone spontaneously hypertensive rats; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

8 HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE; ACETYLCHOLINE; CROCETIN; NITRIC OXIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; CAROTENOID;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ANTITHROMBOTIC EFFECT; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BLOOD CLOTTING; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; GARDENIA JASMINOIDES; HELIUM NEON LASER; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PIA ARTERY; RAT; STROKE PRONE SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORACIC AORTA; TREATMENT DURATION; URINE LEVEL; VASODILATATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEMISTRY; CROCUS; FRUIT; GARDENIA; METABOLISM; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STROKE-PRONE SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RATS; THROMBOSIS;

ANTIOXIDANT; CROCETIN; NITRIC OXIDE; STROKE-PRONE SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RATS; THROMBOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTENOIDS; CROCUS; FRUIT; GARDENIA; HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS, INBRED SHR; VASODILATION;

EID: 84907934362     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.5130     Document Type: Article

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