Cilantro (Coriandrum sativum): An antioxidative fighter

ISBN-13: 9783659741371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 104 str.

Kaur Dasmeet;Soni Giridhar

Opis

Coriandrum sativum (Coriander), an umbelliferous annual plant, native to the eastern Mediterranean and Southern Europe is currently cultivated in many other parts of the world. It is valued for the dry ripe fruits, called coriander seeds and also for the fresh green leaves called cilantro. Apart from being used as spice and a herb, coriander has antioxidant compounds which are considered as important as vitamins for health promotion and protection against damage due to oxidative stress. As a medicinal plant, coriander seeds have been known to possess several pharmacological effects. Since, the result of in vitro models are influenced by large number of factors; there is a need to have a model more close to an in vivo system but reports on ex vivo models are scanty and limited. Consequently for more extensive and closer study related to human body, and ex vivo model like lipid peroxidation in rat liver homogenate and erythrocyte haemolysis in human beings are studied in the present study.

O autorze

Dasmeet Kaur, born in Dehradun graduated in BSc (Medical) from Punjab University, Chandigarh. She successfully completed her Master's in Biochemistry from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana with Merit. Also she continued to work as a Research Scholar at the School of Agricultural Biotechnology,PAU. She is author in Indian scientific journals.