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Potential Antioxidant Activity of Terpenes by Bechir Baccouri; Imen Rajhi is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Potential Antioxidant Activity of Terpenes about?

Terpenes play a key part in the metabolic processes of a wide variety of animals, plants and microorganisms in which they are produced. In nature, terpenoids serve a variety of purposes including defense, signaling and as key agents in metabolic processes. Terpenes have been used in perfumery, cosmetics and medicine for thousands of years and are still extracted from natural sources for these uses. Terpenes antioxidant activities may sometimes explain their capacity to adjust inflammation, immunological effects and neural signal transmission. They offer pertinent protection under oxidative stress situations including renal, liver, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative and diabetes as well as in ageing mechanisms.

Author

Bechir Baccouri; Imen Rajhi

Publisher

IntechOpen

Published

2021

Language

EN