Antioxidant, antibacterial and in vivo dermal wound healing effects of Opuntia flower extracts

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Volumn 81, Issue , 2015, Pages 483-490

  Ammar, Imene ^a   Bardaa, Sana ^b   Mzid, Massara ^b   Sahnoun, Zouheir ^b   Rebaii, Tarak ^b   Attia, Hamadi ^a   Ennouri, Monia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Biological activities; Opuntia flowers; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; AMPICILLIN; BETA CAROTENE; METHANOL; MONOSACCHARIDE; OPUNTIA FICUS-INDICA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; TROLOX C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; SCAVENGER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLEACHING; CHELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOWER; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MUCILAGE; NONHUMAN; OPUNTIA FICUS-INDICA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RAT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WOUND; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; OPUNTIA; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PATHOLOGY; SKIN;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLOWERS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OPUNTIA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; SKIN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84955473908     PISSN: 01418130     EISSN: 18790003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2015.08.039     Document Type: Article

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