Abstract
The effects of three medicinal plants used in ethnopharmacology, corn silk (Maydis stigma), parsley (Petroselinum crispum) and bearberry leaves (Uva ursi folium) on antioxidant capacity pretreated mice blood and liver were determined. The first group of ten animals drank corn silk, second parsley and third bearberry leaf extract. The fourth group was the control when animals drank water. Extracts and water were administrated ad libitum. Antioxidant status of blood and liver was investigated by determining superoxide dismutase, catalase, guiacole peroxidase, glutathione peroxidase activities and reduced glutathione quantity. Quantities of generated hydroxyl and DPPH radicals, lipid peroxidation LP and total antioxidant power, FRAP, were determined at the end of experiment. On the basis of the overall presented results corn silk and bearberry extracts confirmed the therapeutic values known in ethnomedicine and could be proposed for further investigations as a new therapeutic approach in prevention and treatment of blood and liver diseases in modern medicine.
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