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Radical scavenging and lipoxygenase inhibition studies of the compounds isolated from a medicinal lichen, Usnea longissima

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Acknowledgment

Azizuddin Shaikh thank Dr. Talat Makhmoor and Dr. Sarfaraz Ahmed Nawaz for measuring antioxidant and lipoxygenase inhibition activities, respectively.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology, Gulshan-e-Iqbal Campus, Karachi-75300, Pakistan

    Azizuddin

  2. H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan

    Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary

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Published in Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 427–429, May–June, 2011.

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Azizuddin, Choudhary, M.I. Radical scavenging and lipoxygenase inhibition studies of the compounds isolated from a medicinal lichen, Usnea longissima . Chem Nat Compd 47, 481–484 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10600-011-9972-7

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