Antioxidant property of Smilex china Linn.
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2001-11-22
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Smilex china Linn. (Smilacaceae Syn Liliaceae) has special pharmacognostic feature as its root is multiseriate, with sclerenchymatic pericycle. The alcoholic extract of rhizome of S. china shows significant protection against FeSO4 induced lipid peroxidation in rat liver homogenate, but has no effect on the rate of oxidation of reduced glutathione. This fraction scavenges the superoxide and hydroxyl radicals, but the effect was more towards the removal of superoxide than that of hydroxyl radicals. Thus it could be concluded that rhizome of S. china has strong antioxidant property.
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Tripathi YB, Upadhyay AK, Chaturvedi P. Antioxidant property of Smilex china Linn. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology. 2001 Nov; 39(11): 1176-9