Search results for: LEPIDIUM PERUVIANUM

• Glucosinolates from lepidium peruvianum as potential antiamnestic drugs

  Publication

  • D. Tarabasz
  • D. Szwajgier
  • P. Szczeblewski
  • T. Laskowski
  • W. Płaziński
  • E. Baranowska-Wójcik
  • W. Kukula-Koch
  • H. O. Meissner

  - Year 2022

  Lepidium peruvianum (maca) (Brassicaceae) is a naturally occurring plant mainly in the high Andes of Peru. In recent years, it has been intensively researched in terms of its influence on various diseases and towards health improvement. Alzheimer’s disease is an incurable disease that most often affects adults over the age of 60. As since 2003 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not approve any new drug for Alzheimer’s...

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• The Distribution of Glucosinolates in Different Phenotypes of Lepidium peruvianum and Their Role as Acetyl- and Butyrylcholinesterase Inhibitors—In Silico and In Vitro Studies

  Publication

  • D. Tarabasz
  • P. Szczeblewski
  • T. Laskowski
  • W. Płaziński
  • E. Baranowska-Wójcik
  • D. Szwajgier
  • W. Kukula-Koch
  • H. O. Meissner

  - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES - Year 2022

  The aim of the study was to present the fingerprint of different Lepidium peruvianum tu- ber extracts showing glucosinolates-containing substances possibly playing an important role in preventinting dementia and other memory disorders. Different phenotypes of Lepidium peruvianum (Brassicaceae) tubers were analysed for their glucosinolate profile using a liquid chromatograph coupled with mass spectrometer (HPLC-ESI-QTOF-MS/MS platform)....

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