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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Best Publications

  • Fixed oil of Nigella sativa and derived thymoquinone inhibit eicosanoid generation in leukocytes and membrane lipid peroxidation.

    Peter J. Houghton;Rema Zarka;Beatriz de las Heras;J. R. S. Hoult

  • Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors from plants and fungi

    Peter J. Houghton;Yuhao Ren;Melanie-Jayne Howes

  • Leads from Indian medicinal plants with hypoglycemic potentials

    Pulok K Mukherjee;Kuntal Maiti;Kakali Mukherjee;Peter J Houghton

  • Plants used in Chinese and Indian traditional medicine for improvement of memory and cognitive function.

    Melanie-Jayne R. Howes;Peter J. Houghton

  • In-vitro inhibition of human erythrocyte acetylcholinesterase by salvia lavandulaefolia essential oil and constituent terpenes.

    Nicolette S. L. Perry;Peter J. Houghton;Anthony Theobald;Peter Jenner

  • Laboratory Handbook for the Fractionation of Natural Extracts

    Peter J. Houghton;Amala Raman

  • The scientific basis for the reputed activity of Valerian.

    Peter J. Houghton

  • The sulphorhodamine (SRB) assay and other approaches to testing plant extracts and derived compounds for activities related to reputed anticancer activity.

    Peter Houghton;Rui Fang;Isariya Techatanawat;Glyn Steventon

  • In vitro tests and ethnopharmacological investigations: Wound healing as an example

    P J Houghton;P J Hylands;A Y Mensah;A Hensel

  • Medicinal Plants and Alzheimer's Disease: from Ethnobotany to Phytotherapy**

    Elaine K. Perry;Anne T. Pickering;Wei Wei Wang;Peter J. Houghton

  • In vitro cytotoxic activity of Thai medicinal plants used traditionally to treat cancer

    Arunporn Itharat;Peter J Houghton;E Eno-Amooquaye;P.J Burke

  • Flowering plants used against snakebite.

    Peter J. Houghton;Ibironke M. Osibogun

  • Antioxidant activity of methanol extracts obtained from Plantago species.

    Marina Gálvez;Carmen Martín-Cordero;Peter J Houghton;María Jesús Ayuso

  • Cytotoxicity of plants from Malaysia and Thailand used traditionally to treat cancer.

    C.C. Lee;Peter Houghton

  • Cardiovascular effects of ginger aqueous extract and its phenolic constituents are mediated through multiple pathways.

    Muhammad Nabeel Ghayur;Anwarul Hassan Gilani;Maria B. Afridi;Peter J. Houghton

  • Chemical analysis, antioxidant, antiinflammatory and anticholinesterase activities of Origanum ehrenbergii Boiss and Origanum syriacum L. essential oils

    Monica R. Loizzo;Monica R. Loizzo;Federica Menichini;Filomena Conforti;Rosa Tundis

  • Novel diterpenoid acetylcholinesterase inhibitors from Salvia miltiorhiza.

    Yuhao Ren;Peter J. Houghton;Robert C. Hider;Melanie-Jayne R. Howes

  • In-vitro activity of S. lavandulaefolia (Spanish sage) relevant to treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

    Nicolette S. L. Perry;Peter J. Houghton;Julia Sampson;Anthony E. Theobald

  • Ethnobotanical survey and cytotoxicity testing of plants of South-western Nigeria used to treat cancer, with isolation of cytotoxic constituents from Cajanus cajan Millsp. leaves.

    J. S. Ashidi;Peter Houghton;Peter Hylands;T. Efferth;T. Efferth

  • Flavone C-glycosides from Viola yedoensis makino

    Chen Xie;Chen Xie;Chen Xie;Nigel C. Veitch;Peter J. Houghton;Monique S. J. Simmonds

Frequent Co-Authors

Monica Rosa Loizzo
Monica Rosa Loizzo University of Calabria
Francesco Menichini
Francesco Menichini University of Calabria
Rosa Tundis
Rosa Tundis University of Calabria
Monique S. J. Simmonds
Monique S. J. Simmonds Royal Botanic Gardens
Elaine K. Perry
Elaine K. Perry Newcastle University
Simon L. Croft
Simon L. Croft London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Geoffrey C. Kite
Geoffrey C. Kite Royal Botanic Gardens
Peter M. Jones
Peter M. Jones King's College London
Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu
Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu St Xavier’s College
Philip C. Stevenson
Philip C. Stevenson Royal Botanic Gardens

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