Antioxidant activity of nasunin, an anthocyanin in eggplant peels

Toxicology

Volumn 148, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 119-123

  Noda, Yasuko ^a   Kneyuki, Takao ^b   Igarashi, Kiharu ^c   Mori, Akitane ^a   Packer, Lester ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OKAYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Eggplant; Ferrous ion chelating; Lipid peroxidation; Nasunin; Superoxide anion radical scavenger

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; DELPHINIDIN; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NASUNIN; SCAVENGER; SUPEROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; IRON CHELATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RAT;

ANTHOCYANINS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CYCLIC N-OXIDES; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HYDROXYL RADICAL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS; SUPEROXIDES;

EID: 0034617982     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(00)00202-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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