Relation between chemical composition or antioxidant activity and antihypertensive activity for six essential oils.

Six essential oils (EOs), Juniperus phoenicea (leaves and berries), Thymus capitatus, Lauris nobilis, Melaleuca armillaris, and Eucalyptus gracilis, were screened for their antioxidant and antihypertensive activity as well as their chemical compositions. We identified and quantified 24 compounds (representing 99.8% of total oil) for J.

Antispasmodic and antioxidant activities of fractions and bioactive constituent davidigenin isolated from Mascarenhasia arborescens.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Mascarenhasia arborescens A. DC. (Apocynaceae) is used in traditional medicine in the North of Madagascar to treat intestinal disorders, intestinal spasms and diarrhoea.

Cedrelopsis grevei induced hypotension and improved endothelial vasodilatation through an increase of Cu/Zn SOD protein expression.

This study was designed to investigate the cardiovascular consequences of oral administration of Cedrelopsis grevei (CG) in normotensive rats. Experiments were designed to investigate hemodynamic parameters in vivo as well as the consequences of CG treatment on the vasoconstriction response to norepinephrine and the vasorelaxant response to ACh ex vivo in isolated aortas and small mesenteric arteries (SMA). Treatment of male Wistar rats with 80 mg/kg CG for 4 wk induced a progressive decrease in systolic blood pressure.

Vasorelaxing properties and bio-guided fractionation of Cedrelopsis grevei.

The activity-guided fractionation of the hydroalcoholic extract of trunk bark of Cedrelopsis grevei led to the isolation of five coumarins, norbraylin (1), methyl-O-cedrelopsin (2), cedrecoumarin A (3), scoparone (4) and braylin (5) as a part of the constituents responsible for the vasorelaxing activity observed for the crude extract.