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| 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. |
| 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... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Antioxidant; Bioactive compounds; Cytotoxic; Phenolic compounds; Rhodophyta. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652014000100251 |
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| ALENCAR,DANIEL B. DE; DINIZ,JAÉCIO C.; ROCHA,SIMONE A.S.; PIRES-CAVALCANTE,KELMA M.S.; LIMA,REBECA L. DE; SOUSA,KAROLINA C. DE; FREITAS,JEFFERSON O.; BEZERRA,RAYSSA M.; BARACHO,BÁRBARA M.; SAMPAIO,ALEXANDRE H.; VIANA,FRANCISCO A.; SAKER-SAMPAIO,SILVANA. |
| ABSTRACT This study evaluated the chemical composition and antioxidant activity of fatty acids from the marine red algae Pterocladiella capillacea (S. G. Gmelin) Santelices & Hommersand 1997 and Osmundaria obtusiloba (C. Agardh) R. E. Norris 1991. The gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) identified nine fatty acids in the two species. The major fatty acids of P. capillacea and O. obtusiloba were palmitic acid, oleic acid, arachidonic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid. The DPPH radical scavenging capacity of fatty acids was moderate ranging from 25.90% to 29.97%. Fatty acids from P. capillacea (31.18%) had a moderate ferrous ions chelating activity (FIC), while in O. obtusiloba (17.17%), was weak. The ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) of... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Fatty acids; Antioxidant activity; Palmitic acid; Rhodophyta. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652018000100449 |
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