Studies on phytochemical, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities of Euphorbia dracunculoides

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Majid, Muhammad ^a   Khan, Muhammad Rashid ^a   Shah, Naseer Ali ^b   Haq, Ihsan Ul ^a   Farooq, Muhammad Asad ^a   Ullah, Shafi ^a   Sharif, Anam ^a   Zahra, Zartash ^a   Younis, Tahira ^a   Sajid, Moniba ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Department of Biosciences ^*  (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Analgesic; Anti inflammatory; Antioxidant; Euphorbia dracunculoides; Steroids; Terpenoids

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; BETA CAROTENE; CAFFEIC ACID; CATECHIN; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; EUPHORBIA DRACUNCULOIDES EXTRACT; FLAVANOID; IRON CHELATING AGENT; MYRICETIN; PHENOL; PLANT EXTRACT; RUTOSIDE; STEROID; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; TERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA DRACUNCULOIDES; HOT PLATE TEST; IC50; IN VITRO STUDY; IRON CHELATION; NONHUMAN; PAW EDEMA; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; RAT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; EDEMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; EDEMA; EUPHORBIA; HUMANS; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84959094644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12906-015-0868-0     Document Type: Article

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