Antioxidant constituents from licorice roots: Isolation, structure elucidation and antioxidative capacity toward LDL oxidation

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 302-313

  Vaya, Jacob ^a   Belinky, Paula A ^a,b   Aviram, Michael ^b  

^a MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Atherosclerosis; Flavonoids; Glycyrrhiza glabra; LDL oxidation; Licorice

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CHALCONE DERIVATIVE; FORMONONETIN; GLABRIDIN; HISPAGLABRIDIN; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; ISOLIQUIRITIGENIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG STRUCTURE; GLYCYRRHIZA; LIPID OXIDATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BETA CAROTENE; CHALCONE; CHALCONES; FLAVONOIDS; GLYCYRRHIZA; HUMANS; ISOFLAVONES; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

GLYCYRRHIZA; GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA;

EID: 0030959281     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5849(97)00089-0     Document Type: Article

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