Antioxidant effect of purslane (Portulaca oleracea) and its mechanism of action

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1589-1593

  Dkhil, Mohamed A ^a,b   Moniem, Ahmed E Abdel ^b   Al Quraishy, Saleh ^a   Saleh, Reda Awadallah ^c  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Helwan University   (Egypt)

^c AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; Oxidative stress; Purslane; Rat

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; MALONALDEHYDE; NITRIC OXIDE; PEROXIDASE; PORTULACA OLERACEA EXTRACT; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SCREENING; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TESTIS;

PORTULACA OLERACEA; PORTULACACEAE; RATTUS;

EID: 79957660477     PISSN: 19960875     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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