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

• Main Authors: José Carlos Rebuglio Vellosa (Author), Najeh Maissar Khalil (Author), Vânia Ortega Gutierres (Author), Vânia Aparecida de Freitas Formenton Macedo dos Santos (Author), Maysa Furlan (Author), Iguatemy Lourenço Brunetti (Author), Olga Maria Mascarenhas de Faria Oliveira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2009-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...