Determination of oxygen radical absorbance capacity of black cumin (Nigella sativa) seed quinone compounds

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 213-216

  Tesarova, Hana ^a   Svobodova, Blanka ^a   Kokoska, Ladislav ^a   Marsik, Petr ^b   Pribylova, Marie ^b   Landa, Premysl ^b   Vadlejch, Jaroslav ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Antioxidative activity; Dihydrothymoquinone; DPPH; ORAC; Thymoquinone

Indexed keywords

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CISPLATIN; DITHYMOQUINONE; DOXORUBICIN; IFOSFAMIDE; OXYGEN RADICAL; QUINIDINE DERIVATIVE; THYMOHYDROQUINONE; THYMOQUINONE; TROLOX C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIOXIDANT; BENZOQUINONE DERIVATIVE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; SCAVENGER; THYMOL;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLACK CUMIN; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FANCONI RENOTUBULAR SYNDROME; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER TOXICITY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; TISSUE INJURY; CHEMISTRY;

NIGELLA SATIVA;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BENZOQUINONES; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; NIGELLA SATIVA; QUINONES; SEEDS; THYMOL;

EID: 79954546947     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1100600214     Document Type: Article

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