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Antioxidant activity of Paraguayan plant extracts
E Velázquez1, H A Tournier, P Mordujovich de Buschiazzo
1Dirección de Investigación, Facultad de Ciencias Qui;micas, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay.
Fitoterapia
|March 12, 2003
Abstract:
The antioxidant properties of six medical herbs used in the traditional Paraguayan medicine were studied using free radical-generating systems. The methanol extracts from Aristolochia giberti, Cecropia pachystachya, Eugenia uniflora, Piper fulvescens, Schinus weinmannifolia and Schinus terebinthifolia protected against enzymatic and non-enzymatic lipid peroxidation in microsomal membranes of rat. C. pachystachya, E. uniflora, S. weinmannifolia and S. terebinthifolia showed the highest scavenging activity on the superoxide and DPPH radicals.