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BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine BioMed Central Research article Open Access Anti-collagenase, anti-elastase and anti-oxidant activities of extracts from 21 plants 1 2 1 Tamsyn SA Thring , Pauline Hili and Declan P Naughton* Address: 1School of Life Sciences, Kingston University, London, KT1 2EE, UK and 2Neals Yard Remedies, 15 Neals Yard, London, WC2H 9DP, UK Email: Tamsyn SA Thring - k0739646@kingston.ac.uk; Pauline Hili - Pauline@; Declan P Naughton* - D.Naughton@kingston.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 4 August 2009 Received: 6 April 2009 Accepted: 4 August 2009 BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2009, 9:27 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-9-27 This article is available from: /1472-6882/9/27 © 2009 Thring et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Owing to their roles in tissue remodelling in health and disease, several studies have reported investigations on plant extracts as inhibitors of proteinases and as anti-oxidants. Methods: The anti-ageing and anti-oxidant properties of 23 plant extracts (from 21 plant species) were assessed as anti-elastase and anti-collagenase activities and in selected anti-oxidant a