Antioxidant capacity of macaronesian traditional medicinal plants

Molecules

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2576-2592

  Tavares, Lucélia ^a   Carrilho, Dina ^a   Tyagi, Meenu ^a   Barata, David ^a   Serra, Ana Teresa ^a   Duarte, Catarina Maria Martins ^a   Duarte, Rui Oliveira ^b   Feliciano, Rodrigo Pedro ^a   Bronze, Maria Rosário ^a,c   Chicau, Paula ^a   Espírito Santo, Maria Dalila ^d   Ferreira, Ricardo Boavida ^a,d   Santos, Cláudia Nunes Dos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MEDICINES IMED ULISBOA   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Flavonoid; L ascorbic acid; Macaronesia plants; Selenomethionine

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIOXIDANT; FLAVONOID; PLANT EXTRACT; SELENOMETHIONINE; TRACE ELEMENT;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; OCOTEA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT LEAF; PLANTAGO; PORTUGAL; PRUNUS; RUMEX;

AMINO ACIDS; ANGIOSPERMS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; OCOTEA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTAGO; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PORTUGAL; PRUNUS; RUMEX; SELENOMETHIONINE; TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 77951873298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules15042576     Document Type: Article

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