Antioxidant-related activities of ethanol extracts from edible and medicinal plants cultivated in Okinawa, Japan

Nippon Shokuhin Kagaku Kogaku Kaishi

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 652-661

  Masuda, Toshiya ^a,c   Oyama, Yasuo ^a   Inaba, Yuzuru ^a   Toi, Yukiko ^a   Arata, Tomohiro ^a   Takeda, Yoshio ^a   Nakamoto, Katsuo ^b   Kuninaga, Hideki ^b   Nishizato, Saori ^b   Nonaka, Akira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b Nakazen Inc   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINIA; ALPINIA SPECIOSA; ALPINIA ZERUMBET; CITRUS; CITRUS DEPRESSA; ELAEAGNUS; ELAEAGNUS GLABRA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS ROBUSTA; HERITIERA; HERITIERA LITTORALIS; HYPERICUM; HYPERICUM CHINENSE; IPOMOEA; IPOMOEA BATATAS; MALLOTUS JAPONICUS; NANDINA DOMESTICA; PSIDIUM; PSIDIUM GUAJAVA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 10844245669     PISSN: 1341027X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3136/nskkk.49.652     Document Type: Article

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