Authors: DaJeong Heo MyungSoo Shon GyoNam Kim SeungCheol Lee
Publish Date: 2015/02/28
Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 341-345
Abstract
Quercetin is one of the most abundant flavonol in the human diet and it is found in various plants Although many of the biological activities of quercetin have been well described the effect of UV irradiation on its physiological function is still relatively unknown In this study we compared the antioxidant and antiadipogenic activities of intact and UVirradiated quercetins The UV irradiation significantly and markedly attenuated the antioxidant activity of quercetins as determined by the DPPH radical scavenging assay However the UV irradiation had little effect on its antiadipogenic activity which was determined using 3T3L1 adipocyte differentiation model Taken together these results suggest that the antioxidant and antiadipogenic activities of quercetin are independently modulated through molecular and chemical based mechanisms
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