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ReviewAsian Pacific journal of tropical biomedicine2014

Herbal antioxidant in clinical practice: a review.

Shashi Alok, Sanjay Kumar Jain, Amita Verma, Mayank Kumar, Alok Mahor, Monika Sabharwal

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Review in Asian Pacific journal of tropical biomedicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. A Comprehensive Review onPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  6. Impact of Traditional Chinese Medicine Antioxidants on Oxidative Stress and Drug-Induced Liver Injury: A Review.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2024
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  7. Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  15. Potential of flavonoids as anti-Alzheimer's agents: bench to bedside.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022
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  17. Investigation of COInternational journal of biomaterials · 2022
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  18. Effects of dietary Hyssop,Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Shashi AlokInstitute Of Pharmacy, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi (U.P.), India; Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences-Deemed University, Allahabad, U.P. India. Electronic address: shashialok83@gmail.com.
Sanjay Kumar Jain
Amita Verma
Mayank Kumar
Alok Mahor
Monika Sabharwal

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antioxidant-the word itself is magic. Using the antioxidant concept as a spearhead in proposed mechanisms for staving off so-called "free-radical" reactions, the rush is on to mine claims for the latest and most effective combination of free-radical scavenging compounds. We must acknowledge that such "radicals" have definitively been shown to damage all biochemical components such as DNA/RNA, carbohydrates, unsaturated lipids, proteins, and micronutrients such as carotenoids (alpha and beta carotene, lycopene), vitamins A, B6, B12, and folate. Defense strategies against such aggressive radical species include enzymes, antioxidants that occur naturally in the body (glutathione, uric acid, ubiquinol-10, and others) and radical scavenging nutrients, such as vitamins A, C, and E, and carotenoids. This paper will present a brief discussion of some well- and little-known herbs that may add to the optimization of antioxidant status and therefore offer added preventive values for overall health. It is important to state at the outset that antioxidants vary widely in their free-radical quenching effects and each may be individually attracted to specific cell sites. Further evidence of the specialized nature of the carotenoids is demonstrated by the appearance of two carotenoids in the macula region of the retina where beta-carotene is totally absent.

Indexed as

AntioxidantsPlant PreparationsPlants, MedicinalAntioxidantsPlant PreparationsAntioxidantCarotenoidFree-radicalHerb

Identifiers

PMID24144136
PMCPMC3819501

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