Flavonoids, a class of natural products of high pharmacological potency
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...…antiallergic, hepatoprotective, antithrombotic, antiviral, and anticarcinogenic activities, discussed below separately (Gabor, 1979, 1986; Havsteen, 1984; Cody et al., 1986; Farkas et al., 1986; Selway, 1986; Cody et al., 1988; Welton et al., 1988; Das, 1989; Middleton and Kandaswami,…...
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...For centuries, preparations that contain flavonoids as the principal physiologically active constituents have been used by physicians and lay healers in attempts to treat human diseases [10] ....
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...The diverse range of cell functions affected by flavonoids in eukaryotic systems is well documented [10, 20] ....
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...In the case of enzyme inhibition, this has been postulated to be due to the interaction of enzymes with different parts of the flavonoid molecule, e.g. carbohydrate, phenyl ring, phenol and benzopyrone ring [10] ....
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...Flavonoids are ubiquitous in photosynthesising cells and therefore occur widely in the plant kingdom [10] ....
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...[17, 18] , isoflavones [10] , chalcones [13, 19] , flavanones [10, 13] , flavones [10] , flavonols [10] , flavanon-3-ols [13] , anthocyanidins [13, 20] , flavan-3-ols [10, 13] , proanthocyanidins (occur as dimers, trimers, tetramers and pentamers; R = 0, 1, 2 or 3 flavan-3-ol structures) [13] , flavans [13] , flavan-3,4-diols [13] and dihydrochalcones [13] ....
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...Some biochemists from scientifically recognized laboratories felt compelled to text some of the seemingly exaggerated claims made by laymen and confirmed the existence of many interesting effects of the flavonoids (e.g., Havsteen, 1983)....
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