Phytochemical constituents and antioxidant potential of some Cameroonian medicinal plants

Pharmacologyonline

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 436-452

  Dongmo Fomekong, Gilles Ines ^a   Enyong Oben, Julius ^a   Noumessing Momo, Claudia Edwige ^a   Enyegue Mandob, Damaris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

1,1 Diphenyl 2 Picrilhydrazyl (DPPH); Antioxidant; Ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP); Folin; Medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ALCOHOL; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; ANTIOXIDANT; CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE; CARDIAC GLYCOSIDE; FLAVONOID; LIPID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHYTOSTEROL; PLANT GLYCOSIDE; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; REDUCING AGENT; SAPONIN DERIVATIVE; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; TRITERPENE DERIVATIVE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548678197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18278620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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