Variation of Ursolic Acid Content in Eight Ocimum Species from Northeastern Brazil

Ursolic acid is a very important compound due to its biological potential as an anti-inflammatory, trypanocidal, antirheumatic, antiviral, antioxidant and antitumoral agent. This study presents the HPLC analysis of ursolic acid (UA) content in eight different Ocimum species: O. americanum L., O. bas...

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Autores principales: Silva, M. Goretti V., Vieira, Ícaro G. P., Mendes, Francisca N. P., Albuquerque, Irineu. L., dos Santos, Rogério N., Silva, Fábio O., Morais, Selene M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2008
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Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6245192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18923339
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules13102482
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author Silva, M. Goretti V.
Vieira, Ícaro G. P.
Mendes, Francisca N. P.
Albuquerque, Irineu. L.
dos Santos, Rogério N.
Silva, Fábio O.
Morais, Selene M.
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Vieira, Ícaro G. P.
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description Ursolic acid is a very important compound due to its biological potential as an anti-inflammatory, trypanocidal, antirheumatic, antiviral, antioxidant and antitumoral agent. This study presents the HPLC analysis of ursolic acid (UA) content in eight different Ocimum species: O. americanum L., O. basilicum L, O. basilicum var purpurascens Benth, O. basilicum var. minimum L, O. gratissimum L, O. micranthum Willd, O. selloi Benth. and O. tenuiflorum L. grown in Northeastern Brazil. In these Ocimum species, UA was detected in different yields, with O. tenuiflorum showing the highest content (2.02%). This yield is very significant when compared with other sources of UA.
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spelling pubmed-62451922018-11-30 Variation of Ursolic Acid Content in Eight Ocimum Species from Northeastern Brazil Silva, M. Goretti V. Vieira, Ícaro G. P. Mendes, Francisca N. P. Albuquerque, Irineu. L. dos Santos, Rogério N. Silva, Fábio O. Morais, Selene M. Molecules Communication Ursolic acid is a very important compound due to its biological potential as an anti-inflammatory, trypanocidal, antirheumatic, antiviral, antioxidant and antitumoral agent. This study presents the HPLC analysis of ursolic acid (UA) content in eight different Ocimum species: O. americanum L., O. basilicum L, O. basilicum var purpurascens Benth, O. basilicum var. minimum L, O. gratissimum L, O. micranthum Willd, O. selloi Benth. and O. tenuiflorum L. grown in Northeastern Brazil. In these Ocimum species, UA was detected in different yields, with O. tenuiflorum showing the highest content (2.02%). This yield is very significant when compared with other sources of UA. MDPI 2008-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6245192/ /pubmed/18923339 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules13102482 Text en © 2008 by the authors. Licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Silva, M. Goretti V.
Vieira, Ícaro G. P.
Mendes, Francisca N. P.
Albuquerque, Irineu. L.
dos Santos, Rogério N.
Silva, Fábio O.
Morais, Selene M.
Variation of Ursolic Acid Content in Eight Ocimum Species from Northeastern Brazil
title Variation of Ursolic Acid Content in Eight Ocimum Species from Northeastern Brazil
title_full Variation of Ursolic Acid Content in Eight Ocimum Species from Northeastern Brazil
title_fullStr Variation of Ursolic Acid Content in Eight Ocimum Species from Northeastern Brazil
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title_short Variation of Ursolic Acid Content in Eight Ocimum Species from Northeastern Brazil
title_sort variation of ursolic acid content in eight ocimum species from northeastern brazil
topic Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6245192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18923339
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules13102482
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