Effect of Alpinia zerumbet Components on Antioxidant and Skin
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Effect of Alpinia zerumbet components on antioxidant and skin diseases-related enzymes
BACKGROUND The skin is chronically exposed to endogenous and environmental pro-oxidant agents, leading to the harmful generation of reactive oxygen species. Antioxidant is vital substances which possess the ability to protect the body from damage cause by free radicals induce oxidative stress. Alpinia zerumbet, a traditionally important economic plant in Okinawa, contains several interesting bi...
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Methods: The methodology used for evaluation of bioactives should be added in this sub-section. That described in line 24-26 should be moved to background, thus the sentence “The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Alpinia zerumbet components on enzymes responsible for skin diseases” should be elimination. We moved “In this regard, we carried out to test the inhibitory effect of ...
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تاریخ انتشار 2012