Antioxidant activity of twenty five plants from Colombian biodiversity

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 631-634

  Mosquera, Oscar M ^a   Correa, Yaned M ^a   Buitrago, Diana C ^a   Niño, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

1,1 diphenyl 2 picrylhydrazyl (DPPH); Asteraceae; Euphorbiaceae; Radical scavenging; Rubiaceae; Solanaceae

Indexed keywords

ACALYPHA; ALCHORNEA; ASTERACEAE; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; RUBIACEAE; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 34548379595     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000066     Document Type: Article

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