Antioxidant activity of metabolites from Coleonema album (Rutaceae)

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 367-375

  Esterhuizen, Lindy L ^a   Meyer, Riaan ^a   Dubery, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Coleonema album; Coumarins; Flavonoids; Free radicals; Rutaceae; Scavenging

Indexed keywords

EID: 41649114659     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0600100505     Document Type: Article

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