Is thymoquinone an antioxidant?
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Is thymoquinone an antioxidant?
Background Thymoquinone is one of the active ingredients of black cumin (Nigella sativa L.) essential oil possessing antiinflammatory, antineoplastic, neuroand hepatoprotective properties. Some of these properties were attributed to an antioxidant activity of thymoquinone, which seems to be unlikely from its structure. Because the lipophilic thymoquinone exhibits a structural similarity with th...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Pharmacology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1471-2210
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2210-10-s1-a9