Antioxidant activities of extracts from five anti-viral medicinal plants

Chen, Keli, Plumb, Geoff W., Bennett, Richard N. and Bao, Yongping ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6425-0370 (2005) Antioxidant activities of extracts from five anti-viral medicinal plants. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 96 (1-2). pp. 201-205.

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Abstract

The antioxidant activities of five medicinal plants (Ampelopsis sinica, Ampelopsis humiliforlia var. heterophylla, Potentilla freyniana, Selaginella labordei and Chrysanthemum multiflorum), used in the Hubei province of China, have been investigated using both enzymatic and non-enzymatic in vitro antioxidant assays. Extracts from all five of the plants inhibited xanthine oxidase and lipoxygenase activities, and were scavengers of the ABTS*+ radical cation using the Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity assay (TEAC). Extracts from Potentilla freyniana and Selaginella labordei down-regulated cyclooxygenase-2 gene expression, measured by real-time RT-PCR, in human colon adenocarcinoma CaCo-2 cells.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: ampelopsis,antioxidants,antiviral agents,caco-2 cells,chrysanthemum,cyclooxygenase 2,drugs, chinese herbal,free radical scavengers,humans,lipoxygenase inhibitors,membrane proteins,potentilla,prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthases,rna, messenger,reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction,selaginellaceae,time factors,xanthine oxidase
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Nutrition and Preventive Medicine
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Cancer Studies
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Lifespan Health
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Metabolic Health
Depositing User: EPrints Services
Date Deposited: 25 Nov 2010 11:09
Last Modified: 13 Nov 2023 16:52
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/12316
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2004.09.020

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