Salacia campestris root bark extract: peroxidase inhibition, antioxidant and antiradical profile

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and free radical species have been implicated in initiating or accompanying many diseases in living organisms; there is thus, a continual need for antioxidants molecules to inactivate ROS/free radicals. Many studies of plants crude extracts have demonstrated free-radica...

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Main Authors: José Carlos Rebuglio Vellosa, Najeh Maissar Khalil, Vânia Ortega Gutierres, Vânia Aparecida de Freitas Formenton Macedo dos Santos, Maysa Furlan, Iguatemy Lourenço Brunetti, Olga Maria Mascarenhas de Faria Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2009-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502009000100012