In vitro antioxidant properties and characterization in nutrients and phytochemicals of six medicinal plants from the Portuguese folk medicine

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 572-579

  Barros, Lillian ^a   Oliveira, Sónia ^a   Carvalho, Ana Maria ^a   Ferreira, Isabel C F R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Antioxidant properties; Medicinal plants; Phytochemicals; Portuguese ethnobotany

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PARTS; ANTI-OXIDANT ACTIVITIES; ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES; ASCORBIC ACIDS; BRAIN HOMOGENATES; CASTANEA SATIVA; ETHNOBOTANY; FLAVONOIDS; IN-VITRO; LINOLEIC ACID; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LYCOPENES; MEDICINAL PLANTS; PHENOLICS; PHYTOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; PHYTOCHEMICALS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; RADICAL SCAVENGING EFFECT; REDUCING POWER; REDUCING SUGARS; SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE; TOTAL SUGARS;

BRAIN; FATTY ACIDS; FREE RADICAL REACTIONS; GLUCOSE; KETONES; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC ACIDS; PHENOLS; PIGMENTS; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANTIOXIDANT; ETHNOBOTANY; FATTY ACID; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEDICINAL PLANT; PHYTOCHEMISTRY;

PORTUGAL;

CASTANEA SATIVA; HELICHRYSUM; HELICHRYSUM STOECHAS; MATRICARIA; MATRICARIA RECUTITA; RUBUS ULMIFOLIUS;

EID: 77957239574     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2010.07.012     Document Type: Article

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