Procyanidins from tormentil: antioxidant properties towards lipoperoxidation and anti-elastase activity.

Biol Pharm Bull

Laboratoire de Pharmacie Galénique et Pharmacotechnie Industrielle, UFR Pharmacie, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Published: January 1996

Procyanidins extracted from the rhizomes of Potentilla tormentilla were fractionated according to their degree of polymerization by chromatography on Sephadex LH20. Dimers and trimers displayed the highest anti-radical activity towards lipoperoxidation. Pentamers and hexamers possessed the most marked anti-elastase properties.

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