Antioxidant activities of Amaranthus retroflexus leaves

Authors

  • Jyoti Pandit Dept. of Biotechnology, AcharyaNagarjunaUniversity, Guntur (A.P.)
  • S. Ramachandra Setty Dept. of Pharmacology, Govt. college of Pharmacy, Bangaluru (Karnataka)

Keywords:

AREE. reducing power, DPPH and polyphenols

Abstract

Amaranthus retroflexus is a medicinal plant. Our aim is to investigate its invitro antioxidant property. Hence 70%
ethanolic extract of Amaranthus retroflexus leaves (AREE) was taken and the parameters studied were reducing power and
DPPH (1,1-Diphenyl-2-Picryl-hydrazyl) free radical scavenging activity in-vitro models were carried out to evaluate its
antioxidant activity. Therefore these results concluded that, the ethanolic extract afford significant antioxidant activities
which may be attributed due to polyphenols.

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2015-07-08
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Jyoti Pandit, and S. Ramachandra Setty. “Antioxidant Activities of Amaranthus Retroflexus Leaves”. International Journal of Pharmaceutics and Drug Analysis, vol. 3, no. 7, July 2015, pp. 223-5, https://ijpda.org/index.php/journal/article/view/163.

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