Vasorelaxant effect of Prunus yedoensis bark
2013
Background
Prunus yedoensis Matsum. is used as traditional medicine—‘Yaeng-Pi’ or ‘Hua-Pi’—in Japan and Korea. However, no studies have examined the pharmacological activities of the P. yedoensis bark. Only the antioxidant and antiviral activities of P. yedoensis fruit and the anti-hyperglycaemic effect of P. yedoensis leaf have been investigated. While studying the antihypertensive effects of several medicinal plants, we found that a methanol extract of P. yedoensis bark (MEPY) had distinct vasorelaxant effects on rat aortic rings.
Keywords:
- Traditional medicine
- Alternative medicine
- Aortic ring
- Bark
- Prunus
- Vasodilator agents
- Prunus × yedoensis
- Medicinal plants
- Medicine
- NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester
- Botany
- Plant Bark
- Tetraethylammonium
- Pharmacology
- Glibenclamide
- Thoracic aorta
- Aorta
- Biochemistry
- Vasoconstriction
- Phenylephrine
- Physical therapy
- Contraction (grammar)
- Correction
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