Antioxidant activity of procyanidins related research.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 13 Antioxidant activity of procyanidins related research Abstract proanthocyanidins (Procyanidins, PC) was extracted from a variety of plants in a class of substances. With a variety of biological activities, is a strong anti-oxidants, can eliminate free radicals to inhibit lipid peroxidation occurs, PC’s have played an important role in oligomer. This paper mainly with the antioxidant activity of PC-related research to be reviewed. Keywords: oligomeric proanthocyanidins antioxidant protection Antioxidant activity of procyanidins and its related study * KEYWORDS: procyanidins; oligomeric; antioxidation; protection 0 Introduction Procyanidins (Procyanidins, PC) is a widely exist in plant kingdom a large class of polyphenolic compounds in general, initially attributed to condensed tannin integration or flavanols, with the isolation and identification techniques to enhance and in-depth study of such substances with a profound understanding has become a unique and a large class of substances called proanthocyanidins. Procyanidins are mainly distributed in grape, ginkgo, rhubarb, hawthorn, small forsythia, Douglas fir, Japanese Thujopsis, white birch, wild strawberries, coastal pine, sweet potato and other plants, but the study found that grape seed extract the highest levels of procyanidins. Since the 20th century, 80 years, people have dozens of plants, procyanidin oligomers and high polymers to the biological, pharmacological activity study found that proanthocyanidins is a strong antioxidant, has anti-oxidation, anti-cancer, protect heart blood vessels and other biological activity. 1 Antioxidant Proanthocyanidins and structure of the relationship between Proanthocyanidins in powder form, soluble in water, acetic acid, ethanol, acetone and other solvents. Proanthocyanidins from a different number of combination of catechin or epicatechin, the simplest is the catechin, epicatechin or catechin