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Maca contains alkaloids, but there are no studies on their biological effects. To isolate the alkaloids, we used the butanol fraction obtained from methanol extract of maca hypocotyls. The results have shown that Antioxidant activity was better in the methanolic fraction than in the aqueous fraction of yellow or black maca and a higher biological effect was observed in methanolic extract and in aqueous extract than in the butanol fraction of maca.
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Our findings have shown that the biological effect of black and yellow maca was better in the methanolic extract
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This page is a summary of: Effect of butanolic fraction of yellow and black maca (Lepidium meyenii) on the sperm count of adult mice, Andrologia, September 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/and.12679.
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