Antioxidant activity of the methanol extract of Ferula assafoetida and its essential oil composition

Grasas y Aceites

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 405-412

  Dehpour, Abbas Ali ^a   Ebrahimzadeh, Mohammad Ali ^b   Fazel, Nabavi Seyed ^b   Mohammad, Nabavi Seyed ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Chelating ability; DPPH; Essential oil; Ferula assafoetida

Indexed keywords

ANTI-OXIDANT ACTIVITIES; CHELATING ABILITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DPPH; ESSENTIAL OIL COMPOSITION; FERULA ASSAFOETIDA; RADICAL-SCAVENGING ACTIVITIES; TOTAL FLAVONOID CONTENTS;

CHELATION; FREE RADICALS; NITRIC OXIDE; PHENOLS;

ESSENTIAL OILS;

FERULA ASSA-FOETIDA; FOENICULUM VULGARE;

EID: 66249107617     PISSN: 00173495     EISSN: 19884214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3989/gya.010109     Document Type: Article

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