Antioxidant and anticarcinogenic effects of methanolic extract and volatile oil of fennel seeds (Foeniculum vulgare)

Journal of Medicinal Food

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 986-1001

  Mohamad, Ragaa Hosny ^a   El Bastawesy, Amal Mohamad ^b   Abdel Monem, Mohamad Gamil ^a   Noor, Assmaa Mahmoud ^c   Al Mehdar, Hussain Abdel Rahman ^d   Sharawy, Sabry Mohamad ^a   El Merzabani, Mahmuod Mohamad ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

^b Clinical and Chemical Pathology   (Egypt)

^c Middle Eastern Regional Radioisotopes Center for the Arab Countries   (Egypt)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

1,1 diphenyl 2 picrylhydrazyl; antioxidant activity; carcinoma; catalase; chemopreventive; cytotoxic activities; Ehrlich's ascites carcinoma; fennel extract; malondialdehyde; total iron binding capacity

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; CATALASE; ESSENTIAL OIL; ESTRAGOLE; FAT; FERRITIN; FLAVONOID; FOENICULUM VULGARE EXTRACT; FREE RADICAL; GALLIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; IRON; LIMONENE; MALONALDEHYDE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; STEROL DERIVATIVE; TERPENE; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; TRANSFERRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; CELL PROTECTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EHRLICH ASCITES TUMOR; FEMALE; FENNEL; FOOD STORAGE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; LIFESPAN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; LIVER CELL CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTIOXIDANTS; CARCINOMA, EHRLICH TUMOR; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOENICULUM; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; LETHAL DOSE 50; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MICE; OILS, VOLATILE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS; SEEDS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

FOENICULUM VULGARE; MUS;

EID: 80051980207     PISSN: 1096620X     EISSN: 15577600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2008.0255     Document Type: Article

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