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Provedor de dados: | Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
País: | Brazil
Título: | Antioxidant potential and cytotoxic activity of two red seaweed species, Amansia multifida and Meristiella echinocarpa, from the coast of Northeastern Brazil
Autores: | ALENCAR,DANIEL B. DE; SILVA,SUZETE R. DA; PIRES-CAVALCANTE,KELMA M.S.; LIMA,REBECA L. DE; PEREIRA JÚNIOR,FRANCISCO N.; SOUSA,MÁRCIA B. DE; VIANA,FRANCISCO A.; NAGANO,CELSO S.; NASCIMENTO,KYRIA S. DO; CAVADA,BENILDO S.; SAMPAIO,ALEXANDRE H.; SAKER-SAMPAIO,SILVANA.
Data: | 2014-03-01
Ano: | 2014
Palavras-chave: | Antioxidant; Bioactive compounds; Cytotoxic; Phenolic compounds; Rhodophyta.
Resumo: | Natural antioxidants found in marine macroalgae are bioactive compounds known to play an important role in the prevention of diseases associated with aging cells protecting them against the oxidative damage. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant and cytotoxic activity of ethanolic extracts of two species of red seaweeds, Amansia multifida and Meristiella echinocarpa. In vitro antioxidant activity was determined by DPPH radical scavenging assay, ferric-reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) assay, ferrous ion chelating (FIC) assay, β-carotene bleaching (BCB) assay and total phenolic content (TPC) quantification. Cytotoxicity was evaluated with the brine shrimp Artemia sp. lethality test. The TPC values observed in the present study indicated that both species A. multifida and M. echinocarpa are rich in phenolic compounds, reaching values of 45.40 and 28.46 mg gallic acid equivalent (GAE) g−1 of ethanolic extract, respectively. DPPH radical scavenging and ferrous ion chelating showed values of 60% and 17%, respectively. Both seaweed extracts inhibited β-carotene oxidation by approximately 40%. None of the algal extracts were potentially cytotoxic. The results have showed that extracts of both species of marine red algae exhibit antioxidant potential and low toxicity. They are sources of natural antioxidant compounds.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652014000100251
Editor: | Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Relação: | 10.1590/0001-37652014116312
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências  v.86 n.1 2014
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess