Antioxidant activity of some edible plants of the Turkmen Sahra region in northern Iran

Food Chemistry

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1637-1642

  Motamed, Saeed Mohammadi ^a   Naghibi, Farzaneh ^a,b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antioxidant and pro oxidant activity; Edible plants of Turkmen Sahra; Lamiaceae

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; DEOXYRIBOSE; FREE RADICAL; PLANT EXTRACT; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ALLIUM PARADOXUM; ALLIUM RUBELLUM; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BULBOUS VEGETABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FENNEL; IRAN; LEAFY VEGETABLE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MENTHA; MENTHA LONGIFOLIA; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; OREGANO; PLANT; PRUNUS; PRUNUS DIVARICATA; ROSACEAE; RUBUS SANCTUS; RUMEX; RUMEX TUBEROSUS; SATUREJA MUTICA; SAVORY; SPINACIA TURKESTANICA;

ALLIUM PARADOXUM; ALLIUM RUBELLUM; FOENICULUM VULGARE; LAMIACEAE; MENTHA LONGIFOLIA; ORIGANUM VULGARE; PRUNUS DIVARICATA; RUBUS SANCTUS; RUMEX TUBEROSUS; SATUREJA MUTICA; SPINACIA TURKESTANICA;

EID: 70450223125     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2009.09.057     Document Type: Article

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