Ena Ray Banerjee
Department of Zoology Immunology and Regenerative Medicine Research Laboratory,
35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata- 700019, West Bengal
India
Research Article
Free Radical Scavenging Activities of Date Palm (Phoenix sylvestris) Fruit Extracts
Author(s): Kaustab Mukherjee, Pramathadhip Paul and Ena Ray BanerjeeKaustab Mukherjee, Pramathadhip Paul and Ena Ray Banerjee
Fruit of date palm (Phoenix sylvestris L.) is edible and used as an anti-geriatric, anti-oxidant ethnomedicine. In this study, three different types of date palm extracts, methanolic, acidic ethanolic and basic ethanolic were evaluated for their putative in vitro scavenging effects on reactive oxygen species (ROS) where scavenging of hydroxyl radicals (basic ethanolic>acidic ethanolic>methanolic), superoxide radicals (acidic ethanolic>basic ethanolic>methanolic), DPPH radical (acidic ethanolic>methanolic>basic ethanolic), [nitric oxide (NO)] (methanolic>acidic ethanolic>basic ethanolic) and inhibition of lipid peroxidation (basic ethanolic>acidic ethanolic> methanolic) were found to occur in a dose dependent manner. Their flavonoid and phenolic contents proved to be the source of this potent scavenging activity and showed.. View More»
