Volume 1, Issue 4

Subhankar Chakraborty

pp. 1–1 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.4.1 · 2011

The year is almost drawing to a close. Through this period, we have seen the birth and growth of Free Radicals and Antioxidants- a journal that was started to serve as a platform for the ever expanding knowledge on these…

Sailaja Rao P, Sireesha Kalva, Aparna Yerramilli, Sadanandam Mamidi

pp. 2–7 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.4.2 · 2011

Cells generate energy by reducing molecular oxygen to water. During the process, small amounts of partially reduced reactive oxygen forms are produced as unavoidable byproducts which are referred to as Reactive Oxygen Sp…

LLoret A, Giraldo E, Viña J

pp. 8–14 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.4.3 · 2011

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative process associated with oxidative stress. In the past, it was claimed that all neuronal lesions involved in the onset and progression of AD were related to oxidative stress…

Dimitrina Zheleva-Dimitrova, Iliya Zhelev, Ivanka Dimitrova-Dyulgerova

pp. 15–20 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.4.4 · 2011

Background: Species of genus Carduus are traditionally used in Bulgarian folk medicine as diuretic, cardiotonic and antihemorroidal remedies. C. candicans ssp. globifer and C. kerneri ssp. austro-orientalis are Balkan en…

Abderrahmane BAGHIANI, Sabah BOUMERFEG, Moufida ADJADJ, Djamila AMENI, Meriem DJERMOUNI, Fatima KHELIFI-TOUHAMI, Noureddine CHAREF, Seddik KHENNOUF, Lekhmici ARRAR

pp. 21–30 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.4.5 · 2011

Introduction: Antioxidant effects of Ajuga iva L extracts (AIE), a traditionally used plant in Algerian folk medicine, were investigated. This plant is widely used to treat diabetes, gastric ulcer, dysuria, painful joint…

Sadiq S. Moree, Shaukath ara khanum, J. Rajesha

pp. 31–38 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.4.6 · 2011

This paper evaluates critically the science base that underpins the argument that oxidative damage is a significant causative factor in the development of human diseases and that antioxidants are capable of preventing or…

Airen Zuo, Yanying Yu, Jing Li, Binbin Xu, Xiongying Yu, Yan Qiu, Shuwen Cao

pp. 39–47 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.4.7 · 2011

Background: Some flavonoids compounds from the Chinese Traditional Medicine such as isorhamnetin, quercetin, phloretin, silybin have excellent antioxidant activity. Phloretin isonicotinyl hydrazone which was a new compou…

Priyanka Chandra, Daljit Singh Arora

pp. 48–55 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.4.8 · 2011

Three-step optimization strategies were applied to optimize the antioxidant potential of Penicillium citrinum. Primarily, different carbon and nitrogen sources were screened by classical methods, which revealed sucrose a…

Ganga Rao. B, Umamaheswara Rao. P, Sambasiva Rao. E, Mallikarjuna Rao. T, V.S.Praneeth. D

pp. 56–61 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.4.9 · 2011

Introduction: Anti-oxidants are vital substances which possess the ability to protect the body from damage caused by free radical induced oxidative stress. There is an increasing interest in natural anti-oxidants, e.g., …

Shalu Agrawal, Giriraj T Kulkarni, VN Sharma

pp. 62–68 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.4.10 · 2011

Introduction: Terminalia paniculata and Madhuca longifolia are widely used plants in the folk medicine for different ailments. Many of their traditional uses are based on the antioxidant property. But, till now, the anti…

Yusufuddin Irfan, Mohd Asif khan, Shivakumar H.

pp. 69–74 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.4.11 · 2011

Cellular damage or oxidative injury arising from free radicals or reactive oxygen species (ROS) now appears the fundamental mechanism underlying a number of human neurodegenerative disorders, diabetes, inflammation, vira…

Mohd Amir, Ahsanullah Khan, Mohd Mujeeb, Ajaz Ahmad, Sheeba Usmani, Mohd Akhtar

pp. 75–81 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.4.12 · 2011

Introduction: Antioxidant activity of the methanol extract of Zingiber officinale was determined by Reducing power assay, Superoxide anion scavenging activity assay, Hydroxyl radical scavenging activity assay, Nitric oxi…

Subin Mary Zachariah, Dr.N.A. Aleykutty, Vidya Viswanad, Sonu Jacob, Visakh Prabhakar

pp. 82–86 · DOI: 10.5530/ax.2011.4.13 · 2011

Introduction:Over the past decade, herbal and ayurvedic drugs have become a subject of world importance, with both medicinal and economical implications. The relatively lower incidence of adverse reactions to plant prepa…