| Literature DB >> 17435322 |
Venil N Sumantran1, Asavari Kulkarni, Sanjay Boddul, Trushna Chinchwade, Soumya J Koppikar, Abhay Harsulkar, Bhushan Patwardhan, Arvind Chopra, Ulhas V Wagh.
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This is the first report describing two novel chondroprotective activities of aqueous extracts of Withania somnifera root powder.First,these extracts had a statistically significant,short-term chondroprotective effect on damaged human osteoarthritic cartilage matrix in 50% of the patients tested. Second,these extracts caused a significant and reproducible inhibition of the gelatinase activity of collagenase type 2 enzyme in vitro.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17435322 DOI: 10.1007/s12038-007-0030-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Biosci ISSN: 0250-5991 Impact factor: 1.826