Estudo comparativo da bioatividade de compostos fenólicos em plantas medicinais

Abstract

Phenolic compounds are secondary metabolites, widely distributed in the plant kingdom, which present antiinflamatory, antibacterial, antiviral, antialergical and antitumoral activities, in addition to antioxidant activities. Even in low concentrations compared to the oxidant substrate, the antioxidant compounds can delay or inhibit free radical oxidation rates. Thus, this study aimed to quantitatively determine and classify the compounds as natural antioxidants isolated and its contribution to the antiradical activity from the chromatographic analysis (HPLC-DAD) and a systematic study of the antiradical activity of antioxidant compounds isolated (patterns reference) and natural (herbal extracts) using in vitro and ex vivo.bem. Furthermore, the antioxidant species bioactivity was assessed from cells of the cortex and permeation cell biomembranes, artificial lipid. Among the antioxidant compounds studied, quercetrin presented protection action against free radicals on cell-based studies (cortex cells), high in vitro and cell-based antiradical actions, and also biomembrane permeations. These responses, when added, can confer to quercitrin higher relevance as a antioxidant at physiological levels when compared to others poliphenols. This work presents a systematic study on antiradical activities of isolated antioxidant compounds (from reference standards) and natural antioxidant compounds (medicinal plant extracts), by using in vitro and ex vivo methods.