Antioxidant properties and neuroprotective capacity of strawberry tree fruit (Arbutus unedo)

Nutrients

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 214-229

  Fortalezas, Sofia ^a   Tavares, Lucélia ^a   Pimpão, Rui ^a   Tyagi, Meenu ^a   Pontes, Vera ^a   Alves, Paula M ^b   Mcdougall, Gordon ^c   Stewart, Derek ^c   Ferreira, Ricardo B ^a,d   Santos, Cláudia N ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL E TECNOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Flavonoids; Neuroprotection; Polyphenols; Strawberry tree

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; ANTIOXIDANT; ARBUTUS UNEDO EXTRACT; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYPHENOL; RASPBERRY EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARBUTUS UNEDO; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; FRUIT; HEALTH FOOD; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGHER PLANT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; RASPBERRY; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

ARBUTUS UNEDO; RUBUS GLAUCUS; RUBUS IDAEUS;

EID: 79952014737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu2020214     Document Type: Article

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