Chemical composition, vasorelaxant, antioxidant and antiplatelet effects of essential oil of Artemisia campestris L. from Oriental Morocco

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Dib, Ikram ^a   Fauconnier, Marie Laure ^b   Sindic, Marianne ^b   Belmekki, Fatima ^a   Assaidi, Asmae ^a   Berrabah, Mohamed ^a   Mekhfi, Hassane ^a   Aziz, Mohammed ^a   Legssyer, Abdelkhaleq ^a   Bnouham, Mohamed ^a   Ziyyat, Abderrahim ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Antiplatelet; Artemisia campestris L; GC MS; Vasorelaxant

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ANTIOXIDANT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ARTEMISIA CAMPESTRIS EXTRACT; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; BETA EUDESMOL; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PARA CYMENE; PLANT EXTRACT; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SPATHULENOL; THROMBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ESSENTIAL OIL; VASODILATOR AGENT; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ANTIPLATELET ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DPPH RADICAL SCAVENGING ASSAY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; FLOWER; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; RAT; VASODILATATION; ANIMAL; AORTA; ARTEMISIA; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOROCCO; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; AORTA; ARTEMISIA; BETA CAROTENE; MICE; MOROCCO; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT OILS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 85011092703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12906-017-1598-2     Document Type: Article

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