Plant Resources
- Volume 8 Issue 3
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- Pages.188-193
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- 2005
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- 1226-8771(pISSN)
Antioxidative Activity of the Extracts of Japanese Apricot (Prunus mume Siebe. et Zucc.)
- Yoon Jae-Ho (Division of Plant Science, Sunchon National Univ.) ;
- Yang Deok-Chun (Center for Oriental Medicinal Materials & Processing, College of Life Science, KyungHee University) ;
- Song Won-Seob (Division of Plant Science, Sunchon National Univ.)
- Published : 2005.12.01
Abstract
In order to discern the possibility of functional food product or ingredient of a new medicine, the leaf parts and fruit parts of Prunus mume was partitioned with various solvents and their antioxidative activity was measured. When the antioxidative activity of MeOH extracts of leaf parts and fruit parts of Korea and China was compared, all of them showed the highest antioxidative activity in EtOAc fraction. In case of Korean Prunus mume leaf parts showed that quantity required for