Antioxidant and lipoxygenase inhibitory activities of pumpkin seed extracts
2009
Xanthopoulou, Marianna N. | Nomikos, Tzortzis | Fragopoulou, Elizabeth | Antonopoulou, Smaragdi
Pumpkin seeds have been implicated in providing health benefits. However their antioxidant or anti-inflammatory activity of their extracts has never been studied. Therefore, four commercially available pumpkin seeds were treated with two different extraction methodologies in order to obtain fractions with different content. The extracts were screened for their antioxidant activity using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging assay and for their inhibitory activity against lipid peroxidation catalyzed by soybean lipoxygenase.
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