Journal of Food and Nutritional DisordersISSN: 2324-9323

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Research Article, J Food Nutr Disor Vol: 3 Issue: 5

Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Activity of the Essential Oil and Extracts of Dorema Glabrum Roots, Leaves and Flowers

B Habibi1*, G Dehghan2 and A Ebrahimi1
1Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran
2Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz,Iran
Corresponding author : Biuck Habibi
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran
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E-mail: B.Habibi@azaruniv.edu
Received: May 02, 2014 Accepted: September 09, 2014 Published: September 15, 2014
Citation: Habibi B, Dehghan G, Ebrahimi A (2014) Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Activity of the Essential Oil and Extracts of Dorema Glabrum Roots, Leaves and Flowers. J Food Nutr Disor 3:5. doi:10.4172/2324-9323.1000154

Abstract

Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Activity of the Essential Oil and Extracts of Dorema Glabrum Roots, Leaves and Flowers

The chemical composition of the essential oils obtained from Dorema glabrum (Umbelliferae) roots, leaves and flowers were analyzed by gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometery (GC-MS). About 37, 35 and 58 compounds were identified in roots, leaves and flowers of Dorema glabrum (D. glabrum), respectively. Essential oils of leaves were rich in sesquiterpenes (64.94%) and monoterpenes (5.17%), with β-caryophyllene (35.06%) as major component. Roots’s essential oil was rich in sesquiterpenes (55.18%) and monoterpenes (18.35%), with δ- cadinene (18.88%) as major component. And finally, flowers essential oil was rich in monoterpenes (58.31%), and sesquiterpenes (29.18%) with carvon (25.97%), germacrene B (13.05%) and α-limonene (10.37%) as major components. Antioxidant activity of the extracts of D. Glabrum roots, leaves and flowers have been studied by ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and2.2-diphenyl-1-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH) assay. The obtained results show that the weakest (27.41% at μg/mL) and strongest radical scavenging activity (45.0% at 1 μg/mL) were exhibited by the D. glabrum roots’ and flowers’ methanol extract, respectively.

Keywords: Dorema glabrum; β-caryophyllene; Essential oil composition; Antioxidant activity

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