Thymoquinone and its therapeutic potentials

Pharmacological Research

Volumn 95-96, Issue , 2015, Pages 138-158

  Darakhshan, Sara ^a,b   Bidmeshki Pour, Ali ^a   Hosseinzadeh Colagar, Abasalt ^c   Sisakhtnezhad, Sajjad ^a  

^a RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b KERMANSHAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAZANDARAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; THYMOQUINONE; BENZOQUINONE DERIVATIVE; VEGETABLE OIL;

ACUTE BACTERIAL PROSTATITIS; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANGIOGENESIS; ANTIDIABETIC ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTHRITIS; ARTHROPATHY; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BLACK CUMIN; BONE DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CANCER PREVENTION; CARDIOTOXICITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGIC ENCEPHALITIS; FIBROSIS; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOLIPEMIA; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY ADENOCARCINOMA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PANCREAS CANCER; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATITIS; PYELONEPHRITIS; REPERFUSION INJURY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STOMACH INJURY; STOMACH PROTECTION; STOMACH TUMOR; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PLANT SEED;

ANIMALS; BENZOQUINONES; HUMANS; NIGELLA SATIVA; PLANT OILS; SEEDS;

EID: 84927709520     PISSN: 10436618     EISSN: 10961186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2015.03.011     Document Type: Review

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