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Non-enzymatic glycation is a major source of irreversible AGEs production with oxidative stress and can cause major diabetic complications such as neuropathy, nephropathy, and cataract by changing the structure and function of proteins. Common medicinal food having antiglycation and antioxidant activity can be a good therapeutic agent for the treatment of diabetes. The present study was undertaken to investigate the antiglycation and antioxidant activity and their correlation among extracts of four household condiments namely Allium sativum, Zingiber officinale, Caralluma fimbriata and Momordica charantia. In vitro Bovine Serum Albumin assay (BSA) was used for measurement of antiglycation activity with four different solvent extracts (acetone, methanol, ethanol and distilled water). 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay was used for detection of antioxidant activity. Methanolic and acetone extract of all condiments showed significant antiglycation and antioxidant activity and strong correlation (r=0.98). M. charantia showed the highest antiglycation activity with acetone extract as well as free radical scavenging activity 89.80%±1.37 and 93.43%±0.44 at 2mg/ml concentrations on the 7th day of incubation, respectively. All the other plants have shown their maximum percentage inhibition of glycation and antioxidation in methanol and acetone extract. Hence, it is suggested that these plants have a synergetic effect in many complications of diabetes

WAIS ASIF , ANAM SHEHZADI, NAEEM MEHMOOD ASHRAF, ROBINA RASHID, SAJID MEHMOOD. (2019) In Vitro Antioxidant and Antiglycation properties of extracts from Zingiber officinale, Allium sativum, Caralluma fimbriata, and Momordica charantia by using Nanofluorometry, Biologia – Journal of Biological Society of Pakistan, Volume 65 (II), Issue 2.
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