Cucurbitacin glucosides: Antioxidant and free-radical scavenging activities

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 364, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 181-186

  Tannin Spitz, Tehila ^a   Bergman, Margalit ^a   Grossman, Shlomo ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Cucurbitacin glucoside combination (CGC); ESR; Hydroxyl radical; Singlet oxygen; Superoxide anion

Indexed keywords

2,2' AZINO BIS (3 ETHYLBENZOTHIAZOLINE 6 SULFONIC ACID); ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CUCURBITACIN B GLUCOSIDE; CUCURBITACIN E GLUCOSIDE; CUCURBITACIN GLUCOSIDE; FREE RADICAL; GLUCOSIDE; LINOLEIC ACID; MALONALDEHYDE; PIPERIDONE DERIVATIVE; RESVERATROL; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TRIACETONEAMINE; TROLOX C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; IC 50; LIGHT; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAVENGING SYSTEM;

ANTIOXIDANTS; CUCURBITACINS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GLUCOSIDES; HYDROXYL RADICAL; LINOLEIC ACID; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SINGLET OXYGEN; SUPEROXIDES; TRITERPENES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 35348980221     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.09.075     Document Type: Article

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