Antioxidant and free radical scavenging capacity of seed and shell essential oils extracted from abrus precatorius (L)

Antioxidants

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 278-287

  Okoh, Sunday O ^a,b   Asekun, Olayinka T ^a   Familoni, Oluwole B ^a   Afolayan, Anthony J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Abrus precatorius; ABTS; DPPH; Essential oils; Lipid peroxidation; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041617039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/antiox3020278     Document Type: Article

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