Correlations between phenolic content and antioxidant properties in twenty-four plant species of traditional ethnoveterinary use in the Mediterranean area

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 240-247

  Piluzza, Giovanna ^a   Bullitta, Simonetta ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

antioxidants; plant preparations; total phenolics; traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; 2,2' AZINOBIS(3 ETHYLBENZOTHIAZOLINE 6 SULPHONIC ACID)AMMONIUM; AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; ANTIOXIDANT; CHARYBDIS MARITIMA EXTRACT; CISTUS CRETICUS EXTRACT; DIPSACUS FULLONUM EXTRACT; EUPHORBIA EXTRACT; FICUS CARICA CAPRIFICUS EXTRACT; GALLIC ACID; GARLIC EXTRACT; HEDELIX; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MALVA SYLVESTRIS EXTRACT; MATRICARIA CHAMOMILLA EXTRACT; OLEA EUROPEA EXTRACT; ONION EXTRACT; OPUNTIA EXTRACT; PARIETARIA OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; PETROSELINUM CRISPUM EXTRACT; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PISTACIA LENTISCUS EXTRACT; PRUNUS EXTRACT; PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM EXTRACT; SAMBUCUS NIGRA EXTRACT; SMILAX ASPERA EXTRACT; TROLOX C; UMBILICUS RUPESTRIS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; URTICA DIOICA EXTRACT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRACKEN FERN; CHARYBDIS MARITIMA; CISTUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIPSACACEAE; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRY WEIGHT; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; EUPHORBIA; FICUS CARICA CAPRIFICUS; FOLIN CIOCALEU METHOD; GARLIC; IN VITRO STUDY; IVY; MALVA SYLVESTRIS; MATRICARIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; OLIVE TREE; ONION; OPUNTIA; PARIETARIA; PARSLEY; PISTACIA LENTISCUS; PRUNUS; SAMBUCUS NIGRA; SARSAPARILLA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UMBILICUS RUPESTRIS; URTICA DIOICA; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PHENOLS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; VETERINARY DRUGS;

ALLIUM SATIVUM; ANACARDIACEAE; ANIMALIA; LILIACEAE; PISTACIA LENTISCUS;

EID: 79951739599     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: 17445116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13880209.2010.501083     Document Type: Article

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