Antioxidant, antimicrobial and genotoxicity screening of hydro-alcoholic extracts of five Serbian Equisetum species

Plant Foods for Human Nutrition

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 113-119

  Milovanović, Vesna ^a   Radulović, Niko ^b   Todorović, Zoran ^b   Stanković, Miroslava ^c   Stojanović, Gordana ^b  

^a Technical High School   (Macedonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Antioxidant capacity; Equisetum sp.; Flavonoids; Genotoxicity; Hydro alcoholic extracts

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; CAFFEIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUISETUM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; YUGOSLAVIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CAFFEIC ACIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EQUISETUM; FLAVONOIDS; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; PHENOLS; PLANT EXTRACTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; YUGOSLAVIA;

EQUISETUM; EQUISETUM ARVENSE; EQUISETUM FLUVIATILE; EQUISETUM PALUSTRE; EQUISETUM SYLVATICUM; EQUISETUM TELMATEIA;

EID: 34548572758     PISSN: 09219668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11130-007-0050-z     Document Type: Article

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