Determination of total antioxidant activity in three types of local vegetables shoots and the cytotoxic effect of their ethanolic extracts against different cancer cell lines.

• Main Authors: Rahmat, Asmah, Kumar, Vijay, Loo, Mei Fong, Endrini, Susi, Abdullah Sani, Huzaimah
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing 2003
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13967/1/Determination%20of%20total%20antioxidant%20activity%20in%20three%20types%20of%20local%20vegetables%20shoots%20and%20the%20cytotoxic%20effect%20of%20their%20ethanolic%20extracts%20against%20different%20cancer%20cell%20lines.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13967/; http://apjcn.nhri.org.tw/

Antioxidants play an important role in inhibiting and scavenging radicals, thus providing protection to humans against infections and degenerative diseases. Literature shows that the antioxidant activity is high on herbal and vegetable plants. Realizing the fact, this research was carried out to det...