Cancer Prevention and Health Benefices of Traditionally Consumed Borago officinalis Plants
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Cancer Prevention and Health Benefices of Traditionally Consumed Borago officinalis Plants.
Nowadays, healthy eating is increasing the demand of functional foods by societies as sources of bioactive products with healthy qualities. For this reason, we tested the safety of the consumption of Borago officinalis L. and its main phenolic components as well as the possibility of its use as a nutraceutical plant to help in cancer prevention. The in vivo Drosophila Somatic Mutation and Recom...
متن کاملCorrection: Lozano-Baena, M.-D.; et al. Cancer Prevention and Health Benefices of Traditionally Consumed Borago officinalis Plants. Nutrients 2016, 8(1), 48.
Figure 1. Antigenotoxic activity of Borago officinalis plant material: (a) blue flowered (BF) and (b) white flowered (WF) plant material expressed as mutation frequency corrected to control. Strength of inhibition on the capability of H2O2 (0.12 M) to induce mutated cells is also shown (Inhibition Percentage in brackets). White columns correspond with tested concentrations of simple treatments,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nutrients
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2072-6643
DOI: 10.3390/nu8010048