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BMC COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Volume 16, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12906-016-1061-9
Keywords
Amazon medicinal plants; Antioxidants; Citotoxicity; Reactive oxygen species; Free radical scavenging
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- Brazilian Science and Technology Ministry (MCT) through grants (CT-AMAZONIA) from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
- Financier of Studies and Projects (FINEP)
- CNPq
- DCR/CNPq/FAPEAM
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Background: The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world and is home to a rich biodiversity of medicinal plants. Several of these plants are used by the local population for the treatment of diseases, many of those with probable anti-inflammatory effect. The aim of the present investigation was to evaluate the in vitro antioxidant and anti-peroxidases potential of the ethanol extracts of five plants from the Brazilian Amazon (Byrsonima japurensis, Calycophyllum spruceanum, Maytenus guyanensis, Passiflora nitida and Ptychopetalum olacoides). Methods: DPPH, ABTS, superoxide anion radical, singlet oxygen and the beta-carotene bleaching methods were employed for characterization of free radical scavenging activity. Also, total polyphenols were determined. Antioxidant activities were evaluated using murine fibroblast NIH3T3 cell. Inhibition of HRP and MPO were evaluated using amplex red (R) as susbtract. Results: The stem bark extracts of C. spruceanum and M. guyanensis provided the highest free radical scavenging activities. C. spruceanum exhibited IC50 = 7.5 +/- 0.9, 5.0 +/- 0.1, 18.2 +/- 3.0 and 92.4 +/- 24.8 mu g/mL for DPPH+center dot, ABTS(+center dot), O-2(-center dot) and O-1(2) assays, respectively. P. olacoides and C. spruceanum extracts also inhibited free radicals formation in the cell-based assay. At a concentration of 100 mu g/mL, the extracts of C. spruceanum, B. japurensis inhibited horseradish peroxidase by 62 and 50 %, respectively. C. spruceanum, M. guyanensis, B. japurensis also inhibited myeloperoxidase in 72, 67 and 56 %, respectively. Conclusions: This work supports the folk use these species that inhibited peroxidases and exhibited significant free radical scavenging and antioxidant activities what can be related to treatment of inflammation.
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