Intestinal and vascular smooth muscle relaxant effect of Viscum album explains its medicinal use in hyperactive gut disorders and hypertension

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Khan, Taous ^a   Ali, Sayyad ^a   Qayyum, Rahila ^a   Hussain, Izhar ^a   Wahid, Fazli ^a   Shah, Abdul Jabbar ^a  

^a Department of Pharmacy ^*  (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Ca++ antagonist; Fraction; Gut spasm; Rabbit jejunum and aorta; Vasorelaxation; Viscum album

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ANTHRAQUINONE; CARDIAC GLYCOSIDE; FLAVONOID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHYTOSTEROL; POTASSIUM; SAPONIN; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; VERAPAMIL; VISCUM ALBUM EXTRACT; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EC50; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; INTESTINE MUSCLE; JEJUNUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; THORACIC AORTIC RING (SLICE); VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION; ANIMAL; AORTA; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; RABBITS AND HARES; VISCUM ALBUM;

ANIMALS; AORTA; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; HYPERTENSION; JEJUNUM; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RABBITS; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 84979574724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12906-016-1229-3     Document Type: Article

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