Versatile redox chemistry complicates antioxidant capacity assessment: Flavonoids as milieu-dependent anti- and pro-oxidants

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 11830-11841

  Chobot, Vladimir ^a   Kubicova, Lenka ^a   Bachmann, Gert ^a   Hadacek, Franz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioactive phytochemicals; Fenton reaction; Hydroxyl radical; Luteolin; Natural products; Plant stress physiology and biology; Quercetin; Rutin; Square wave voltammetry

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DEOXYRIBOSE; FLAVONOID; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; LUTEOLIN; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT GLYCOSIDE; QUERCETIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RUTOSIDE; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CATECHOL; GLYCOSIDE; RESORCINOL; IRON; OXIDIZING AGENT; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HALF LIFE TIME; HYDROXYLATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; POTENTIOMETRY; DEOXYRIBOSE DEGRADATION ASSAY; FENTON REACTION; HABER WEISS REACTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; SQUARE WAVE VOLTAMMETRY; CHEMISTRY;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; FLAVONOIDS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IRON; LUTEOLIN; OXIDANTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; QUERCETIN; RUTIN; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

EID: 84878867339     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms140611830     Document Type: Article

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