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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2025

Biological activities and phytochemical characterization of

Turgut Taşkın, Beyza Nur Yılmaz, Shalaleh Hasan Niari Niar, Mizgin Ermanoğlu, Duygu Taşkın, İsmail Şenkardeş, Talip Şahin, Elif Çalışkan Salihi, Ali Demir Sezer, Oya Kerimoğlu and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Turgut TaşkınDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Beyza Nur YılmazDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Shalaleh Hasan Niari NiarMarmara Pharmacy Drug and Innovative Product Development Unit, Faculty of Pharmacy, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Mizgin ErmanoğluDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Duygu TaşkınMarmara Pharmacy Drug and Innovative Product Development Unit, Faculty of Pharmacy, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
İsmail ŞenkardeşDepartment of Pharmaceutical Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Talip ŞahinDepartment of Biology, Institute of Science, Adıyaman University, Adıyaman, Türkiye.
Elif Çalışkan SalihiMarmara Pharmacy Drug and Innovative Product Development Unit, Faculty of Pharmacy, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Ali Demir SezerMarmara Pharmacy Drug and Innovative Product Development Unit, Faculty of Pharmacy, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Oya KerimoğluMarmara Pharmacy Drug and Innovative Product Development Unit, Faculty of Pharmacy, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Hatice Kübra ElçioğluMarmara Pharmacy Drug and Innovative Product Development Unit, Faculty of Pharmacy, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye.

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Abstract

Introduction: The current study focuses on evaluating the biological activity and analysis of phytochemical content of extracts and extract-loaded nanoparticles from Methods: Antioxidant activities of extracts and nanoparticles were investigated by DPPH, FRAP and CUPRAC methods. Enzyme inhibition potentials of extracts and nanoparticles were evaluated by Ellman and indophenol methods. Phytochemical contents were analyzed by HPLC-DAD. Plant extracts were encapsulated by the ionic gelation method which was modified in our laboratory using the green chemistry approach. Results and Discussion: It was found that the 70% ethanol extracts of SGV and SLL exhibited the highest antioxidant activity in terms of DPPH, FRAP and CUPRAC compared to other extracts. The findings showed that both 70% ethanol extract-loaded nanoparticles obtained from SGV and SLL showed lower DPPH radical scavenging, iron (III) reducing and copper (II) reducing activities compared to crude extracts. It was determined that the 70% extracts of SGV and SLL exhibited a higher potential to inhibit the enzyme urease than other extracts. The anti-urease activity of the nanoparticle loaded with SLL 70% ethanol extract was found to be greater than that of the nanoparticle made with SGV 70% ethanol extract. Furthermore, an analysis of the acetylcholinesterase enzyme inhibition capacity of various extracts from both plants revealed that the 70% ethanol extracts of each plant species had a greater potential for enzyme inhibition than the other extracts. The anticholinesterase activity of the nanoparticle loaded with SLL 70% extract was found to be higher than that of the nanoparticle loaded with SGV 70% ethanol extract. In this study the phenolic metabolites were examined, luteolin (27.44 μg/mg extract) and Conclusion: The substantial biological activities of the nanoparticles developed as a result of this work showed that these formulations are suitable for use as antioxidant, anti-urease and anticholinesterase medicines in the future due to the benefits of using nanoparticles in the therapeutics such as the controlled release of the active agents and the diminished side effects.

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biological activityHPLC-DADmedicinal plantsnanoparticlesSideritis germanicopolitana subsp. viridisS. libanotica subsp. linearis

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PMCPMC11959306

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