Antihyperlipidemic and Antioxidant Activities of Edible Tunisian Ficus carica L. Fruits in High Fat Diet-Induced Hyperlipidemic Rats

Plant Foods for Human Nutrition

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 183-189

  Belguith Hadriche, Olfa ^a,b   Ammar, Sonda ^c,d   Contreras, Maria del Mar ^d   Turki, Mouna ^a   Segura Carretero, Antonio ^d   El Feki, Abdelfattah ^b   Makni Ayedi, Fatma ^a   Bouaziz, Mohamed ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b University of Sfax   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^d Functional Food Research and Development Centre (CIDAF)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; Ficus carica; Hypercholesterolemia; Mass spectrometry; Phenolic compounds

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; FICUS; FRUIT; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; LIPID DIET; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RAT; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, REVERSE-PHASE; DIET, HIGH-FAT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FICUS; FRUIT; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHENOLS; RATS;

EID: 84963722207     PISSN: 09219668     EISSN: 15739104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11130-016-0541-x     Document Type: Article

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