Acute and sub-acute toxicological evaluation of the alcoholic leaf and root extracts of Clerodendrum infortunatum L.

Leaf and root extracts of Clerodendrum infortunatum L. have been reported to show anthelmintic efficacy on a cestode parasite Raillietina tetragona. Its leaf showed no toxicity at 1000 mg/kg body weight but root toxicity study was not known. Therefore, our study is to test both leaf and root extracts at 2000 and 3000 mg/kg body weight concentration given orally for 15 days in four groups of Swiss albino mice, keeping another set as control (without plant extract). Weight and behaviour of mice were recorded daily. Feeding, movement pattern were normal in all treatments as that of control. Though body weight increase, there was no change in the relative organ weight. Biochemical and haematological studies revealed no significant change from control and no alteration in histopathological study of liver and kidney from that of control. The plant extracts thus shown to be safe for consumption.     

Phytochemical constituents from dietary plant Citrus hystrix

Chemical investigation of the fruit peel of dietary plant Citrus hystrix offered two new flavones 5,6,4′-trihydroxypyranoflavone I and 5,4′-dimethyl-6-prenylpyranoflavone XIII besides 11 known compounds. The structures of all compounds were elucidated with the aid of suitable analytical methods like 1D, 2D-NMR, mass and single crystal X-ray analysis. An X-ray crystal study of compound II was done for the first time and the compounds I–VI, XI and XII are hitherto not reported from this plant. Biological studies revealed that compound I found to have a good antidiabetic and antiacetylcholinesterase activities meanwhile compounds II, III and V showed a significant free radical scavenging ability as well as antioxidant capacity. In addition, compounds I, IV, V and VI showed cytotoxicity against U87, A549 and MCF-7 cells. Overall, the new compound I showed valuable bioactive properties. Due to insufficient quantity of compound XIII, biological studies were not done.     

Enantiomeric Separation of Adrenergic Amines in Citrus Species, Related Genera and Dietary Supplements by Capillary Electrophoresis

Citrus aurantium L. (Rutaceae) fruit extracts have recently been used for weight loss. Among the adrenergic amines the most important active constituent is the sympathomimetic compound synephrine and commercially available extracts are standardized for their content of this active principle. A capillary electrophoresis method was developed for the quantitative and qualitative determination of d-synephrine, l-synephrine, d-octopamine, l-octopamine, tyramine, n-methyl tyramine and hordenine. The electrophoretic separation was performed using a 75 cm × 50 µm ID (66.5 cm effective length) fused silica capillary. The samples were injected by pressure for 5s at 50 mbar and the running voltage was 30 kV at the injector end of the capillary. The method developed was successively applied to the determination of the adrenergic amines in dietary supplements, in various Citrus species including Citrus aurantium, jams and juices. Synephrine was the main component and present in the levels from 0.02–0.17% in various Citrus species and 0.42–69.28 mg in dietary supplements claiming to contain Citrus aurantium. Parameters affecting the resolution between (+) and (−)-enantiomers, such as pH, cyclodextrin concentration, temperature, organic modifier, buffer concentration and capillary dimensions were reported.     

柑橘果肉果胶的流变和结构特性

以柑橘果肉为原料,采用稀酸提醇沉法提取果胶粗品,研究了果胶溶液的浓度及热处理温度对果胶溶液流变学性质的影响.采用DEAE Cellulose-52柱对柑橘果肉粗品进行洗脱得到3个多糖组分(P-0,P-1和P-2),对其分子量、半乳糖醛酸、单糖组成及酯化度等进行分析,并利用红外光谱及核磁共振氢谱等对各组分进行结构特性分析.结果表明,柑橘果肉果胶为典型的剪切稀化型非牛顿流体;P-0,P-1和P-2组分分子量存在显著差异;柑橘果肉果胶为富含糖醛酸的酸性多糖,且是发生部分乙酰化的低酯果胶,其单糖组成以半乳糖醛酸、半乳糖、阿拉伯糖、鼠李糖和岩藻糖居多,且均以Ⅰ型聚鼠李半乳糖醛酸(RG-Ⅰ型)结构为主;3种组分糖环类型均是吡喃糖,糖苷键既有α型,又有β型.     

Selective recovery of rosmarinic and carnosic acids from rosemary leaves under ultrasound- and microwave-assisted extraction procedures

Ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) and microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) are currently amongst the foremost green techniques for accelerating extraction processes. Several methods for the efficient recovery of the phenolic compounds from rosemary leaves have so far been proposed, but little data are available on the use of UAE and MAE. The aim of this work is to investigate the efficiency and selectivity of these techniques in recovering fractions of specific phenolic compounds from dried rosemary leaves using solvents that are suitable for food applications. UAE has been carried out by means of a probe system equipped with a titanium horn working at 19.5 kHz (140 W). MAE has been performed in a closed multimode reactor under N₂ (20 bar) at 100 °C. All obtained extracts were dissolved in a defined solvent volume and the solutions were directly analyzed using a combination of the HPLC-DAD-MS and TOF techniques. MAE and UAE in ethanol and acetone dramatically increased phenol yield (more than three times) as compared to more traditional solid–liquid extraction processes. In terms of selectivity, remarkably high rosmarinic acid content (6.8% of the dried extract) was obtained in ethanol under ultrasound (US). Even more impressive is the selectivity of UAE in n-hexane which gave the highest carnosic acid content, up to 13% of the dried extract. In conclusion, non-conventional energy sources and, in particular, high-intensity US have proven themselves to be rapid, efficient, and selective techniques for rosemary leaf extraction and provide fractions with high rosmarinic and carnosic acid contents.     

竹叶提取物对铝在HCl溶液中的缓蚀作用

用不同浓度的C₂H₅OH（体积分数：20%-80%）从金竹竹叶中提取制备出竹叶缓蚀剂（简称为PSLE）,用紫外-可见（UV-Vis）光谱和傅里叶变换红外（FTIR）光谱对其进行了表征,并对总黄酮含量进行了测定. 采用失重法、动电位极化曲线、电化学阻抗谱（EIS）和扫描电子显微镜（SEM）研究PSLE在HCl 介质中对铝的缓蚀作用.采用量子化学密度泛函理论（DFT）研究了两个主要竹叶黄酮成分牡荆苷和异牡荆苷的吸附方式. 结果表明：PSLE对铝具有良好的缓蚀作用,且在铝表面的吸附符合Langmuir 吸附等温式. 缓蚀率随其浓度的增加而增大,但随温度的升高和盐酸浓度的增加而降低. 竹叶总黄酮含量和竹叶缓蚀剂的缓蚀性能有良好的相关性,初步推测竹叶缓蚀剂的有效成分主要为竹叶黄酮类化合物. PSLE为阴极抑制型缓蚀剂;EIS 在高频区呈容抗弧,在低频区呈感抗弧,添加PSLE后,阻抗值显著增大. SEM表明添加PSLE对铝的腐蚀产生了明显的抑制作用.量子化学计算结果表明,牡荆苷和异牡荆苷的吸附中心主要集中在竹叶黄酮骨架（FBS）.     

青海柴达木地区植物白刺叶中微量元素特征

青海柴达木地区分布有丰富的白刺植物资源。利用220FS原子吸收光谱仪分析了该地区三种白刺叶片的Cu,Zn,Fe,Mn,Cr,Ni,Cd等微量元素。结果表明,铬、 锰含量显著提高是青海柴达木地区植物白刺叶资源微量元素特征。这为柴达木地区白刺叶资源的开发利用提供科学依据。     

微量元素叶面肥料中硼的测定

研究了在 pH 6 .5乙酸铵缓冲溶液中 ,硼与 3 甲氧基 甲亚胺H的显色反应条件 ,最大吸收在 4 2 0nm处 ,摩尔吸光系数为 8.1× 10 3,硼含量在 0～ 10 μg/ 10ml范围内符合比耳定律。用于微量元素叶面肥料中硼的测定 ,获得了与国标法一致的结果     

复配絮凝剂对荷叶水提液的絮凝工艺研究

为了克服传统中药提取工艺中有效成分损失率高的缺点,提高药液的澄清度和药效,优化生产工艺,采用絮凝法对中药水提液进行除杂,并在实验中将絮凝剂壳聚糖与单宁复合使用,以水提液的絮凝率和黄酮损失率为衡量指标.通过正交实验,得出最优操作条件为壳聚糖投加量为1.071 g·L-1,单宁投加量为5.3579 g·L-1,温度为30℃,搅拌转数为60 r·min-1.在此基础上研究了各个因素随絮凝工艺条件的变化趋势及对絮凝效果的影响.实验结果表明,用复配絮凝剂处理荷叶水提液能够有效去除杂质,降低黄酮损失率,缩短生产周期.     

Determination of Quercetin in Extracts of Ginkgo biloba L. Leaves by Near‐Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy Based on Interval Partial Least‐Squares (iPLS) Model

Abstract

This paper developed a multivariate method of analysis of quercetin in Ginkgo biloba leaf extracts, based on reflectance NIR measurements and partial least squares regression. In order to give a better correlation with the results obtained by HPLC, multiplicative scatter correction (MSC) was utilized to correct scattering effect and interval partial least squares (iPLS) to select optimum wavelength region. In general, good calibration statistics were obtained for the prediction of quercetin content, as demonstrated by some figures of merit, namely linearity, repeatability, and accuracy. And the iPLS model was more reliable than the full model.