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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2012

Antioxidant ability and mechanism of rhizoma Atractylodes macrocephala.

Xican Li, Jian Lin, Weijuan Han, Wenqiong Mai, Li Wang, Qiang Li, Miaofang Lin, Mingsong Bai, Lishan Zhang, Dongfeng Chen

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34 citing papers in PubMed, 88 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xican LiSchool of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510006, China. lixican@126.com
Jian Lin
Weijuan Han
Wenqiong Mai
Li Wang
Qiang Li
Miaofang Lin
Mingsong Bai
Lishan Zhang
Dongfeng Chen
Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rhizoma Atractylodes macrocephala (AM) has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for about 2,000 years. In the study, we firstly determined the antioxidant levels of five AM extracts by •OH-scavenging, •O2−-scavenging, Fe2+-chelating, Cu2+-chelating, DPPH·-scavenging, and ABTS+·-scavenging assays. After measurement of the chemical contents in five AM extracts, we quantitatively analyzed the correlations between antioxidant levels and chemical contents. It was observed that total phenolics and total flavonoids had significant positive correlations with antioxidant levels (R = 0.685 and 0.479, respectively). In contrast, total sugars and total saponins presented lower correlations with antioxidant levels (R=−0.272 and 0.244, respectively). It means that antioxidant activity of AM should be attributed to total phenolics (including phenolic acids and flavonoids), and not total sugars and total saponins. Further analysis indicated that phenolic acids exhibited higher R values with radical-scavenging assays (R=0.32–1.00), while flavonoids showed higher R values with metal-chelating assays (R=0.86 and 0.90). In conclusion, AM exerts its antioxidant effect through metal-chelating, and radical-scavenging which is via donating hydrogen atom and donating electron. Its metal-chelating may result from flavonoids, while its radical-scavenging can be attributed to phenolic acids, especially caffeic acid, ferulic acid, and protocatechuic acid.

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AtractylodesBenzothiazolesBiphenyl CompoundsCaffeic AcidsCopperCoumaric AcidsDrugs, Chinese HerbalFlavonoidsFree Radical ScavengersHydroxybenzoatesHydroxyl RadicalIronLiquid-Liquid ExtractionOxidantsPicratesRhizome1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl2,2'-azino-di-(3-ethylbenzothiazoline)-6-sulfonic acidBenzothiazolesBiphenyl Compoundscaffeic acidCaffeic AcidsCopperCoumaric AcidsDrugs, Chinese Herbalferulic acidFlavonoidsFree Radical ScavengersHydroxybenzoatesHydroxyl RadicalIronOxidantsPicratesprotocatechuic acidSulfonic AcidsSuperoxides

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PMCPMC6268131
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