| antihypertensive, antiatherosclerotic and antioxidant activity of triterpenoids isolated from olea europaea, subspecies africana leaves. | for the first time a biossay-directed study of triterpenoids isolated from the leaves of olea europaea from greece, from wild african olive and from a cultivar of o. europaea grown in cape town was reported. the experiment was undertaken since our preliminary analyses showed that the african wild olive leave is rich in triterpenoids and contain only traces of the glycoside oleuropein, which is typical for the european olive leaves. the isolate of the african wild olive leaves (ao) used in the ex ... | 2003 | 12648829 |