Myorelaxant and antispasmodic effects of
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Maria A. C. Bezerra; José H. Leal-Cardoso; Andrelina N. Coelho-de-Souza; David N
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The effects of the essential oil of Alpinia speciosa Schum (EOAS) on rat ileum were studied. EOAS (0.1-600 mg/mL) reversibly relaxed ileal basal tonus. Submaximal contractions induced by 60 mM KCl or acetylcholine were concentration dependently inhibited by EOAS with similar IC 50 values ($ 44 and 4