Total phenolic content, antioxidant activity and toxicity of aqueous extracts from selected Greek medicinal and aromatic plants

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 53, Issue , 2014, Pages 46-54

  Skotti, Efstathia ^a   Anastasaki, Eirini ^a   Kanellou, Georgia ^a   Polissiou, Moschos ^a   Tarantilis, Petros A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Lamiaceae; Synergism; Total phenolic content; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANTI-OXIDANT ACTIVITIES; AQUEOUS EXTRACTS; AROMATIC PLANTS; EXTRACTION PROCESS; LAMIACEAE; ORIGANUM VULGARE; SYNERGISM; TOTAL PHENOLIC CONTENT;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ESSENTIAL OILS; EXTRACTION; PLANT EXTRACTS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

TOXICITY;

ANTIOXIDANT; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; COMMERCIALIZATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTRACTION METHOD; MEDICINAL PLANT; PHENOL; SOLUBILITY; SYNERGISM; TOXICITY;

GREECE;

EID: 84891066409     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2013.12.013     Document Type: Article

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