“…Besides the widely recognised positive effect on capillary fragility and permeability, rutin is reported to have an antihyperglycaemic effect (Wang et al, 1992;Kamalakkannan and Stanely Mainzen, 2006), a protective effect against the development of diabetes (Odetti et al, 1990;Srinivasan et al, 2005), a mitigating effect on the consequences of diabetes (Je et al, 2002;Nagasawa et al, 2003), antioxidative properties (Oomah and Maza, 1996;Afanas'eva et al, 2001), anti-inflammatory activity (Guardia et al, 2001), anti-platelet formation properties (Sheu et al, 2004), a mitigating effect on cardiovascular diseases (He 266 et al, 1995), anticancer activity and antimutagenic activity (Aheme and O'Brien, 1999;2000;Undeger et al, 2004).…”