Phytochemical Screening, Antioxidant Potential, and LC–ESI–MS Profiling of Ephedra alata and Ephedra altissima Seeds Naturally Growing in Tunisia

Most Ephedra species are adapted to arid and desert conditions and are widely used in folk medicine to treat several disorders. The design of the current study was to determine the functional properties of seeds of two Ephedra species (E. alata and E. altissima) naturally growing in Tunisian arid zo...

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Autores principales: Mahmoudi, Maher, Boughalleb, Fayçal, Maaloul, Samah, Mabrouk, Mahmoud, Abdellaoui, Raoudha
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9887572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36719522
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12010-023-04370-8
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author Mahmoudi, Maher
Boughalleb, Fayçal
Maaloul, Samah
Mabrouk, Mahmoud
Abdellaoui, Raoudha
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description Most Ephedra species are adapted to arid and desert conditions and are widely used in folk medicine to treat several disorders. The design of the current study was to determine the functional properties of seeds of two Ephedra species (E. alata and E. altissima) naturally growing in Tunisian arid zones by evaluating their mineral contents and bioactive compounds. The flame atomic absorption spectrometry revealed that seeds contained remarkable amounts of sodium (Na), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), and iron (Fe). The colorimetric investigation revealed high total polyphenol, flavonoid, and condensed tannin contents. Furthermore, by utilizing high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization–mass spectrometry method (HPLC-ESI/MS), a total of 11 phenolics were identified and quantified including 7 flavonoid compounds and 4 phenolic acids that were mostly predominated by gallic acid and quercetrin. Results so far have been very encouraging and proved that Ephedra seeds are a valuable source of natural bioactive compounds and minerals which could potentially be used for industrial and pharmaceutical purposes.
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spelling pubmed-98875722023-01-31 Phytochemical Screening, Antioxidant Potential, and LC–ESI–MS Profiling of Ephedra alata and Ephedra altissima Seeds Naturally Growing in Tunisia Mahmoudi, Maher Boughalleb, Fayçal Maaloul, Samah Mabrouk, Mahmoud Abdellaoui, Raoudha Appl Biochem Biotechnol Original Article Most Ephedra species are adapted to arid and desert conditions and are widely used in folk medicine to treat several disorders. The design of the current study was to determine the functional properties of seeds of two Ephedra species (E. alata and E. altissima) naturally growing in Tunisian arid zones by evaluating their mineral contents and bioactive compounds. The flame atomic absorption spectrometry revealed that seeds contained remarkable amounts of sodium (Na), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), and iron (Fe). The colorimetric investigation revealed high total polyphenol, flavonoid, and condensed tannin contents. Furthermore, by utilizing high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization–mass spectrometry method (HPLC-ESI/MS), a total of 11 phenolics were identified and quantified including 7 flavonoid compounds and 4 phenolic acids that were mostly predominated by gallic acid and quercetrin. Results so far have been very encouraging and proved that Ephedra seeds are a valuable source of natural bioactive compounds and minerals which could potentially be used for industrial and pharmaceutical purposes. Springer US 2023-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9887572/ /pubmed/36719522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12010-023-04370-8 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Mahmoudi, Maher
Boughalleb, Fayçal
Maaloul, Samah
Mabrouk, Mahmoud
Abdellaoui, Raoudha
Phytochemical Screening, Antioxidant Potential, and LC–ESI–MS Profiling of Ephedra alata and Ephedra altissima Seeds Naturally Growing in Tunisia
title Phytochemical Screening, Antioxidant Potential, and LC–ESI–MS Profiling of Ephedra alata and Ephedra altissima Seeds Naturally Growing in Tunisia
title_full Phytochemical Screening, Antioxidant Potential, and LC–ESI–MS Profiling of Ephedra alata and Ephedra altissima Seeds Naturally Growing in Tunisia
title_fullStr Phytochemical Screening, Antioxidant Potential, and LC–ESI–MS Profiling of Ephedra alata and Ephedra altissima Seeds Naturally Growing in Tunisia
title_full_unstemmed Phytochemical Screening, Antioxidant Potential, and LC–ESI–MS Profiling of Ephedra alata and Ephedra altissima Seeds Naturally Growing in Tunisia
title_short Phytochemical Screening, Antioxidant Potential, and LC–ESI–MS Profiling of Ephedra alata and Ephedra altissima Seeds Naturally Growing in Tunisia
title_sort phytochemical screening, antioxidant potential, and lc–esi–ms profiling of ephedra alata and ephedra altissima seeds naturally growing in tunisia
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9887572/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12010-023-04370-8
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