Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Essential Oils: A Short Review

Essential oils are complex mixtures isolated from aromatic plants which may possess antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of interest in thye food and cosmetic industries as well as in the human health field. In this work, a review was done on the most recent publications concerning their ant...

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Autor principal: Miguel, Maria Graça
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6259136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21160452
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules15129252
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spelling pubmed-62591362018-12-06 Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Essential Oils: A Short Review Miguel, Maria Graça Molecules Review Essential oils are complex mixtures isolated from aromatic plants which may possess antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of interest in thye food and cosmetic industries as well as in the human health field. In this work, a review was done on the most recent publications concerning their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. At the same time a survey of the methods generally used for the evaluation of antioxidant activity and some of the mechanisms involved in the anti-inflammatory activities of essential oils are also reported. MDPI 2010-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6259136/ /pubmed/21160452 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules15129252 Text en © 2010 by the authors; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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