Comparative study of antioxidant properties of wild growing and cultivated Allium species

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 113-117

  Stajner D ^a   Igic R ^b   Popovic B M ^a   Malencic Dj ^a  

^a Horticulture and Landscape Architecture   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Allium; Antioxidants; Free radicals; Lipid peroxidation

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CAROTENOID; CATALASE; CHLOROPHYLL; FLAVONOID; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GUAIACOL PEROXIDASE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MALONALDEHYDE; OXYGEN RADICAL; PEROXIDASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ALLIUM ATROVIOLACEUM; ALLIUM FLAVUM; ALLIUM NUTANS; ALLIUM PSKEMENSE; ALLIUM ROSEUM; ALLIUM SCORODOPRASUM; ALLIUM SPHAEROCEPHALUM; ALLIUM SUBHIRSUTUM; ALLIUM URSINUM; ALLIUM VINEALE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHIVE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GARLIC; MEDICINAL PLANT; ONION; WELSH ONION;

ALLIUM; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; CAROTENOIDS; CATALASE; FLAVONOIDS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ALLIUM; ALLIUM ATROVIOLACEUM; ALLIUM CEPA; ALLIUM FISTULOSUM; ALLIUM FLAVUM; ALLIUM NUTANS; ALLIUM PSKEMENSE; ALLIUM ROSEUM; ALLIUM SATIVUM; ALLIUM SCHOENOPRASUM; ALLIUM SCORODOPRASUM; ALLIUM SUBHIRSUTUM; ALLIUM URSINUM; ALLIUM VINEALE; SPHAEROCEPHALUM;

EID: 38549163631     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.2278     Document Type: Article

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