Pharmacological evaluation of Bangladeshi medicinal plants for antioxidant activity

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 10-11, 2008, Pages 704-709

  Mazumder, M E H ^a   Rahman, S ^b  

^a JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Bangladesh; Drug discovery; Ethnopharmacology; Free radicals; Medicinal plants; Neurodegenerative disease; Neuroprotection; Oxidative damage; Phytomedicine

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYPHLORIDZIN; APIGENIN; ASTAXANTHIN; BETA CAROTENE; CAFFEIC ACID; CATECHIN; DAIDZEIN; EPICATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; FERULIC ACID; GALLIC ACID; GENISTEIN; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HESPERETIN; KAEMPFEROL; LUTEOLIN; LYCOPENE; MYRICETIN; NARINGENIN; PARA COUMARIC ACID; PELARGONODIN; PHLORIZIN; PROTOCATECHUIC ACID; QUERCETIN; RUTOSIDE; SYRINGIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANILLIC ACID; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

ADHATODA VASICA; AEGLE MARMELOS; AMOORA CUCULLATA; ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA; ANTHOCEPHALUS CHINENSIS; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APHANAMIXIS POLYSTACHYA; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BLACK CUMIN; BLACK PEPPER; BOERHAAVIA REPENS; CAESALPINIA BONDUCELLA; CALYCOPTERIS FLORIBUNDA; CELL DAMAGE; CERBERA ODOLLAM; CERIOPS DECANDRA; CLERODENDRUM VISCOSUM; CORDYLINE TERMINALIS; CORIANDRUM SATIVUM; DENDROPHTHE FALCATA; DERRIS ULIGINOSA; DIOSPYROS PEREGRINA; DRUG SCREENING; EMBELICA OFFICINALIS; FENNEL; FICUS RELIGIOSA; GINGER; GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA; HEMIDESMUS INDICUS; HERITIERA FOMES; HUMAN; HYGROPHILA AURICULATA; KIGELIA PINNATA; LAGERSTROEMIA SPECIOSA; LEUCAS ASPERA; MANILKARA ZAPOTA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELIA AZADIRACHTA; MEONURUS SIBIRICUS; MORINGA OLEIFERA; MYRISTICA MALABARICA; NONHUMAN; OCIMUM AMERICANUM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PAEDERIA FOETIDA; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; POLYALTHIA LONGIFOLIA; SEMICARPUS ANACARDIUM; SHOREA ROBUSTA; SONNERATIA CASEOLARIS; SWETTIA CHIRATA; TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRIBULUS TERESTRIS; VERNONIA ANTHELMINTICA; VITIS TRIFOLIA; XYLOCARPUS GRANATUM; XYLOCARPUS MOLLUCENSIS;

EID: 57649208710     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: 17445116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13880200802215735     Document Type: Article

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