In vitro antioxidant and anti-proliferative activity of Ethiopian medicinal plant extracts

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 74, Issue , 2015, Pages 671-679

  Tauchen, Jan ^a   Doskocil, Ivo ^a   Caffi, Cecilia ^b   Lulekal, Ermias ^c   Marsik, Petr ^d   Havlik, Jaroslav ^a   Damme, Patrick Van ^a,b   Kokoska, Ladislav ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c DEBRE BERHAN UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Anticarcinogenic; Antioxidant; Medicinal plants; Plant extract

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANTS; ASSAYS; CELL CULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; PLANTS (BOTANY); TOXICITY;

2 ,2-DIPHENYL-1-PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ANTI-PROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITIES; ANTICARCINOGENIC; CELL VIABILITY ASSAYS; MEDICINAL PLANT EXTRACTS; MEDICINAL PLANTS; OXYGEN RADICAL ABSORBANCE CAPACITIES; TOTAL PHENOLIC CONTENT;

PLANT EXTRACTS;

ANTIOXIDANT; DEVELOPING WORLD; ETHANOL; MEDICINAL PLANT; PLANT EXTRACT; WILD POPULATION;

ETHIOPIA;

CARISSA; DODONAEA ANGUSTIFOLIA; JASMINUM ABYSSINICUM; RUBUS; RUBUS NEPALENSIS; RUMEX NEPALENSIS; VERBASCUM SINAITICUM;

EID: 84930941052     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2015.05.068     Document Type: Article

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