BACKGROUND Sonchus asper (SA) is traditionally used for the treatment of various ailments associated with liver, lungs and kidneys. This study was aimed to investigate the therapeutic potential of nonpolar (hexane, SAHE; ethyl acetate, SAEE and chloroform, SACE) and polar (methanol, SAME) crude extracts of the whole plant. METHODS To achieve these goals, several parameters including free-radi...

Background & Aim:Oxidative stresses caused by free radicals are known to promote many diseases such as inflammation and cancer; therefore, any plant product that can inhibit free radical production can play an important role in preventing diseases. We aimed to compare the fracture rate and the scavenging activity of free radicals, and the antioxidant composition of rol...

Abstract In this report, the stoichiometric ratio ( R ) for interaction of diphenylpicrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radicals with antioxidant was employed as an evaluation index DPPH radical scavenging activity antioxidants. This related only to relationship and had no initial amount sample volume, which could offer a solution problem poor comparability EC 50 values under different conditions. A novel ele...

Oxidative stress leads to formation of free radicals, reactive oxygen species and nitrogen species, which leads to numerous pathophysiological disorders. The present study is aimed to evaluate the free radical scavenging potential of flowers of Gomphrena globosa. The extracts from the flowers of Gomphrena globosa were prepared in solvents viz. methanol, ethanol and butanol. Spectrophotmetric an...

The aim of this study was to determine the in vitro antioxidant activity, free radical scavenging property and the beneficial effects of extracts of various parts of Syzygium guineense in reducing oxidative stress damage in the liver. The effects of extracts on free radicals were determined on radicals DPPH, ABTS, NO and OH followed by the antioxidant properties using Ferric Reducing Antioxidan...

background & aim: free radicals play a crucial role in the development of tissue damage in various human diseases such as cancer, aging, neurodegenerative disease, malaria and arteriosclerosis, and pathological events in living organisms. antioxidants may have an important role in the prevention of these diseases. the aim of this study is to evaluate potency of scavenging of dpph free radic...

The aims of this study are to determine and compare the antioxidant levels and activities (i.e. primary and secondary) between selected seeds of Malaysian tropical fruits - guava (Psidium guajava), mango (Mangifera indica L.) and papaya (Carica papaya L.). Seeds are among byproducts from the processing of fruitsbased products. Instead of discarding seeds as waste, seeds with high potential as a...

1,1-dipheny-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) scavenging activities of the 80% methanolic leaf extracts of three cultivars (small leaf, SL; big leaf, BL; thin leaf, TL) of Mai-Men-Dong (Liriope spicata L.) are analyzed by spectrophotometry. The concentrations required for 50% inhibition (IC 50 ) of DPPH radicals were 81.08, 96.97, and 53.78 μg/mL, respectively. The methanolic extracts were further partit...