Studies on Antioxidant and Cryoprotective Flavonoids from the Stem bark of Semecarpus anacardium

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2014 in the subject Chemistry - Bio-chemistry, , language: English, abstract: Oxidative stress, excess generation of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), is a common event in many pathological conditions including cancer. The generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is an inevitable aspect of life under aerobic conditions. ROS are continuously produced as byproducts of certain metabolic pathways and also by some specific systems under fine cellular control. At the same time, ROS are degraded via several specific and nonspecific mechanisms. These two processes are usually under tight cellular control and very low (