Antioxidant activities of major thyme ingredients and lack of (oxidative) DNA damage in V79 Chinese hamster lung fibroblast cells at low levels of carvacrol and thymol

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2037-2043

  Ündeǧer, Ü ^a   Basaran A ^a   Degen, G H ^b   Basaran N ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Terpinene; Carvacrol; Comet assay; Reactive oxygen species; Thymol; Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity

Indexed keywords

CARVACROL; DNA; DNA FORMAMIDOPYRIMIDINE GLYCOSYLASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TERPINENE; THYMOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHINESE HAMSTER; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; GENOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG FIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; THYME;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CELL LINE; CHROMANS; COMET ASSAY; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DNA DAMAGE; FIBROBLASTS; MONOTERPENES; MUTAGENS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT OILS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; THYMOL; THYMUS PLANT;

CRICETULUS GRISEUS; THYMUS VULGARIS;

EID: 68649096335     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2009.05.020     Document Type: Article

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