Antioxidant capacity of selected plant extracts and their essential oils

Antioxidants

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-22

  Proestos, Charalampos ^a   Lytoudi, Konstantina ^a   Mavromelanidou, Olga Konstantina ^a   Zoumpoulakis, Panagiotis ^b   Sinanoglou, Vassileia J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

ABTS; Antioxidant capacity; DPPH; Essential oils; HPLC UV vis; Plant extracts; Rancimat test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894346348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/antiox2010011     Document Type: Article

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