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JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE
Volume 74, Issue 6, Pages C419-C425Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2009.01191.x
Keywords
antioxidant; catechins; herbs; LDH; superoxide radical
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- Chung-Ang Univ. Research
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To elucidate the health benefit of herbal teas on the cytotoxicity induced by H2O2 in V79-4 cells, herbal extracts and its flavonoids were tested using lactate dehydrogenase release and determining intracellular reactive oxygen species generation and antioxidant activity with superoxide radical scavenging assay. Significant decrease in cell viability was observed on V79-4 cells treated with H2O2 (1 mM), while herbal extracts and its flavonoids including catechin and epigallocatechin gallate prevented the LDH release from H2O2 cytotoxicity. Total catechin contents of green tea (65.6 mg/g of dry matter) were significantly higher than other herbal teas (35.8 to 1.2 mg/g of DM). The relative concentration of the 4 major tea catechins ranked EGCG > EGC > EC > C. Green tea exhibited the lowest IC50 values (2 g fresh herb/100 mL) of superoxide radical scavenging activity among the tested herbal tea, which indicates powerful antioxidant activity in O-2(center dot-) radicals scavenging, followed by black tea, dandelion, hawthorn, rose hip, chamomile.
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