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Antioxidant and Antiacetylcholinesterase Activities of Some Commercial Essential Oils and Their Major Compounds
The commercial essential oils of Citrus aurantium L., Cupressus sempervirens L., Eucalyptus globulus Labill., Foeniculum vulgare Mill. and Thymus vulgaris L., isolated by steam distillation by a company of Morocco were evaluated in terms of in vitro antioxidant activity through several methods. In v...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6264425/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21900869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules16097672 |
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author | Aazza, Smail Lyoussi, Badiâ Miguel, Maria G. |
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description | The commercial essential oils of Citrus aurantium L., Cupressus sempervirens L., Eucalyptus globulus Labill., Foeniculum vulgare Mill. and Thymus vulgaris L., isolated by steam distillation by a company of Morocco were evaluated in terms of in vitro antioxidant activity through several methods. In vitro acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity was also determined. Citrus limon (L.) Burm. f. oil was also studied, but it was obtained by peel expression. The best antioxidant was T. vulgaris oil, independent of the method used, mainly due to the presence of the phenolic monoterpenes thymol and carvacrol, which when studied as single compounds also presented the best activities. Concerning the acetylcholinesterase inhibition activity, E. globulus was the most effective. Nevertheless its main components 1,8-cineole and limonene were not the most active, a feature that corresponded to δ-3-carene. |
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spelling | pubmed-62644252018-12-10 Antioxidant and Antiacetylcholinesterase Activities of Some Commercial Essential Oils and Their Major Compounds Aazza, Smail Lyoussi, Badiâ Miguel, Maria G. Molecules Article The commercial essential oils of Citrus aurantium L., Cupressus sempervirens L., Eucalyptus globulus Labill., Foeniculum vulgare Mill. and Thymus vulgaris L., isolated by steam distillation by a company of Morocco were evaluated in terms of in vitro antioxidant activity through several methods. In vitro acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity was also determined. Citrus limon (L.) Burm. f. oil was also studied, but it was obtained by peel expression. The best antioxidant was T. vulgaris oil, independent of the method used, mainly due to the presence of the phenolic monoterpenes thymol and carvacrol, which when studied as single compounds also presented the best activities. Concerning the acetylcholinesterase inhibition activity, E. globulus was the most effective. Nevertheless its main components 1,8-cineole and limonene were not the most active, a feature that corresponded to δ-3-carene. MDPI 2011-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6264425/ /pubmed/21900869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules16097672 Text en © 2011 by the authors; licensee MDPI, 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Aazza, Smail Lyoussi, Badiâ Miguel, Maria G. Antioxidant and Antiacetylcholinesterase Activities of Some Commercial Essential Oils and Their Major Compounds |
title | Antioxidant and Antiacetylcholinesterase Activities of Some Commercial Essential Oils and Their Major Compounds |
title_full | Antioxidant and Antiacetylcholinesterase Activities of Some Commercial Essential Oils and Their Major Compounds |
title_fullStr | Antioxidant and Antiacetylcholinesterase Activities of Some Commercial Essential Oils and Their Major Compounds |
title_full_unstemmed | Antioxidant and Antiacetylcholinesterase Activities of Some Commercial Essential Oils and Their Major Compounds |
title_short | Antioxidant and Antiacetylcholinesterase Activities of Some Commercial Essential Oils and Their Major Compounds |
title_sort | antioxidant and antiacetylcholinesterase activities of some commercial essential oils and their major compounds |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6264425/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21900869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules16097672 |
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