Accumulation of vasicine and vasicinone in tissue cultures of Adhatoda vasica and evaluation of the free radical-scavenging activities of the various crude extracts

Food Chemistry

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1033-1038

  Roja, G ^a   Vikrant, B H ^b   Sandur, Santosh Kumar ^a   Sharma, Asmita ^a   Pushpa, K K ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI   (India)

Author keywords

Adhatoda vasica; Antioxidant activity; DPPH assay; HPLC; Tissue cultures; Vasicine; Vasicinone

Indexed keywords

ADHATODA VASICA; ANTI-OXIDANT ACTIVITIES; DPPH ASSAY; HPLC; VASICINE; VASICINONE;

FREE RADICALS; METABOLITES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); TISSUE; TISSUE CULTURE;

SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ADHATODA VASICA EXTRACT; ALKALOID; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; METHANOL; SCAVENGER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASICINE; VASICINONE; WATER;

ARTICLE; DRY WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; SHOOT; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TISSUE CULTURE;

ACANTHACEAE; JUSTICIA ADHATODA;

EID: 78751581796     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2010.11.115     Document Type: Article

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