Word.ws English Dictionary

NDGA

NDGA is the abbreviation of nordihydroguaiaretic acid.

Meaning of nordihydroguaiaretic acid

Noun

nordihydroguaiaretic acid (uncountable)

  1. An antioxidant compound found in the creosote bush (Larrea tridentata), formerly used as a food preservative.
    • In mouse studies, anti-inflammatory drugs showed a potential for extending lifespan, although their effects were relatively small (Strong et al., 2008); for example, nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA) and aspirin increased survival but did not extend maximum lifespan.2015 April 22, Valter D Longo et al., “Interventions to Slow Aging in Humans: Are We Ready?”, in Aging Cell, volume 14, →DOI
    Synonyms:
    NDGA

Questions about NDGA

What is NDGA the abbreviation of?
NDGA is the abbreviation of nordihydroguaiaretic acid.

Words near NDGA in the dictionary

  1. NDFI
  2. NDFIs
  3. NDFP
  4. NDFs
  5. NDG
  6. NDGA
  7. NDI
  8. Ndiaye
  9. Ndiayes
  10. NDIS
  11. NDK

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: NDGA (page history and authors); nordihydroguaiaretic acid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “NDGA.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ndga. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.