Volume 1, Issue 2

Subhankar Chakraborty

pp. 1–1 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.2.1 · 2011

Time flies by in a flash. Here we stand poised to release the second issue of Free Radicals and Antioxidants. It gives me immense pleasure to share with all readers and contributors the overwhelmingly positive response t…

Mueen Ahmed KK, Monalisa Baral

pp. 2–3 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.2.2 · 2011

Antioxidants are defined by the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) as substances, which may be applied in preserving food by retarding deterioration, rancidity or discolouration due to oxidation. Antioxi…

Susana Cardoso, Renato X. Santos, Cristina Carvalho, Sónia Correia, Maria S. Santos, Paula I. Moreira

pp. 4–14 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.2.3 · 2011

Uncoupling proteins (UCPs) are a family of mitochondrial anion-carrier proteins located on the inner mitochondrial membrane, where they promote the dissociation of oxidative phosphorylation from respiration. The specific…

M.C. Meinke, A. Lauer, B. Taskoparan, I. Gersonde, J. Lademann, M. E. Darvin

pp. 15–20 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.2.4 · 2011

Introduction:Intakes of fruit and vegetables rich in carotenoids are associated with a lower risk for a variety of chronic diseases. Therefore, the carotenoid levels in the skin have been measured in various studies to i…

Paul Chidoka Chikezie, Augustine Amadikwa Uwakwe

pp. 21–25 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.2.5 · 2011

The erythrocyte membrane is susceptible to lipid peroxidation due to its high content of polyunsaturated lipids. The present study ascertained levels of lipid peroxidation of non-parasitized erythrocytes of non-malarious…

Paul Chidoka Chikezie

pp. 26–30 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.2.6 · 2011

Levels of human erythrocyte glutathione S-transferase (GST) activity were ascertained in the presence of separate increasing concentrations (0.2, 0.4, 0.6, and 0.8 mg% w/v) of five antimalarial drugs {Pyrimethamine/Sulph…

Erol-Dayi Ö, Pekmez M., Bona M., Aras-Perk A., Arda N.

pp. 31–36 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.2.7 · 2011

Background:Many species of the genus Centaurea have been reported to be used in Anatolian folk medicine. In the present study, methanolic and aqueous extracts of three species of Centaurea L. (C. calcitrapa subsp. calcit…

Inder Kumar Makhija, H. N. Aswatha Ram, C. S. Shreedhara, Vijay Kumar S, Raviraj Devkar

pp. 37–41 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.2.8 · 2011

Introduction: “Sitopaladi churna” is a reputed Ayurvedic polyherbal medicine prescribed for pleurodynia, intercostal neuralgia, cough associated with bronchitis, supportive agent for allergy, viral respiratory infection,…

Arvind Kumar Goyal, Sushil Kumar Middha, Arnab Sen

pp. 42–48 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.2.9 · 2011

Introduction: Plant derived natural antioxidants have attracted scientists for many years because of their economic viability and virtually no side effects. Therefore the present study was planned to evaluate the antioxi…

Mahmoud A. Koheil, Mohammed A. Hussein, Samir M. Othman, Alaa El-Haddad

pp. 49–61 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.2.10 · 2011

The present study was carried out to evaluate the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities of Moringa peregrina seeds ethanolic and aqueous extracts. The anti-inflammatory effect Moringa peregrina extracts was examin…

K. Srinivasa Rao, Prameela Rani Munjuluri, B.V.V. Ravi Kumar, Nargesh K. Keshar

pp. 62–71 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.2.11 · 2011

Introduction: Some researchers suggest that two-thirds of the world’s plant species have medicinal value; in particular, many medicinal plants have great antioxidant potential. Antioxidants reduce the oxidative stress in…