Mangosteen Extract

Product Description

Magnosteen Extract
 

• Latin name: garcinia mangostana.
• Extract method: extracted from the garcinia mangostana.
• By special technique extraction.
• Active ingredient: alpha-mangostin.
• Appearance: yellow crystalline powder.
• Specification: alpha-mangostin *0%.
• Molecular structure: C*4H*6O6.
• Mangostin is a kind of xanthones able to scavenge free radicals, a high ranker on the ORAC antioxidant scale.
• Remarkable antioxidant activity superior than vitamins and abilities of anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, anti-malaria and phytoestrogen effect and antimicrobial activity against fungi or bacteria.
• Mangostin is used to treat skin infections, wounds, and diarrhea.
• Alpha-mangostin, a xanthone, inhibited growth of human leukemia HL*0 cells, reduced the synthesis of prostaglandins, and prevented oxidative damage of LDL in vitro.
• There is also preliminary evidence that alpha- and gamma-mangostins act as histamine and serotonin receptor blockers, and also inhibit HIV*1 protease. Garcinone E, another xanthone, exerts cytotoxic effects against human hepatocellular carcinoma cells.
• Extract from the pericarp of mangosteen has antiproliferative, antioxidative, and apoptotic effects against human breast cancer SKBR3 cells.