Anti–oxidative and anti–inflammatory effects of Tagetes minuta essential oil in activated macrophages

Objective: To investigate antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of Tagetes minuta (T. minuta) essential oil. Methods: In the present study T. minuta essential oil was obtained from leaves of T. minuta via hydro-distillation and then was analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The anti-...

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Main Authors: Parastoo Karimian, Gholamreza Kavoosi, Zahra Amirghofran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-03-01
Series:Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2221169115301969