Herbal antioxidant in clinical practice:A review

作     者：Shashi Alok Sanjay Kumar Jain Amita Verma Mayank Kumar Alok Mahor Monika Sabharwal 

作者机构：Institute Of PharmacyBundelkhand University Department of Pharmaceutical SciencesFaculty of Health SciencesSam Higginbottom Institute of AgricultureTechnology and Sciences-DeemedUniversity Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research 

出 版 物：《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine》 (亚太热带生物医学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第4卷第1期

页      面：78-84页

学科分类：1008[医学-中药学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1006[医学-中西医结合] 100602[医学-中西医结合临床] 10[医学] 

基　　金：Supported by Institute of Pharmacy Bandelkhand University.Jhansi U.Pa India(Grant number.BU/PHARM/02-13) 

主　　题：Antioxidant Carotenoid Free-radical Herb 

摘      要：Antioxidant-the word itself is *** the antioxidant concept as a spearhead in proposed mechanisms for staving off so-calledfree-radicalreactions,the rush is on to mine claims for the latest and most effective combination of free-radical scavenging *** must acknowledge that suchradicalshave definitively been shown to damage all biochemical components such as DNA/HNA,carbohydrates,unsaturated lipids,proteins,and micronutrients such as carotenoids(alpha and beta carotene,lycopene),vitamins A,B_6,B_(12),and *** strategies against such aggressive radical species include enzymes,antioxidants that occur naturally in the body(glutathione,uric acid,ubiquinol-10,and others)and radical scavenging nutrients,such as vitamins A,C,and E,and *** paper will present a brief discussion of some well-and little-known herbs that may add to the optimization of antioxidant status and therefore offer added preventive values for overall *** is important to state at the outset that antioxidants vary widely in their free-radical quenching effects and each may be individually attracted to specific cell *** evidence of the specialized nature of the carotenoids is demonstrated by the appearance of two carotenoids in the macula region of the retina where beta-carotene is totally