Anticholinesterase, Antioxidant, Antiaflatoxigenic Activities of Ten Edible Wild Plants from Ordu Area, Turkey

Belma Zengin Kurt; Işıl Gazioğlu; Ece Sevgi; Fatih Sönmez

Anticholinesterase, Antioxidant, Antiaflatoxigenic Activities of Ten Edible Wild Plants from Ordu Area, Turkey

Iran J Pharm Res. 2018 Summer;17(3):1047-1056.

Authors

Belma Zengin Kurt¹, Işıl Gazioğlu², Ece Sevgi³, Fatih Sönmez⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey.
² Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey.
³ Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Science, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey.

PMID: 30127827
PMCID: PMC6094434

Abstract

Turkey has highly rich floras of medicinal and aromatic plants because of having various climate conditions in different regions. One of these regions is Middle Black Sea Region, especially Ordu Province. Extracts of 10 edible plants (Arum maculatum L., Hypericum orientale L., Ornithogalum sigmoideum Freyn et Sint., Silene vulgaris Garcke var. macrocarpa, Plantago lanceolata L., Achillea millefolium L. subsp. pannonica, Rumex crispus L., Rumex acetosella L., Capsella bursa-pastoris L., Coronopus squamatus Asch.), grown in Ordu, Turkey, were prepared with different solvents (hexane, ethanol and water, separately) and their anticholinestrase and antiaflatoxigenic activities were evaluated. Additionally, the cupric reducing antioxidant capacities (CUPRAC) and ABTS cation radical scavenging abilities of the extracts were assayed. The ethanol extract of R. acetosella exhibited the highest antioxidant activity (A_0.5 value of 25.31 µg/mL, for CUPRAC activity; IC₅₀ value of 23.73 µg/mL, for ABTS activity). The hexane extract of C. bursa-pastoris showed the strongest inhibition against AChE enzyme with IC₅₀ value of 7.24 µg/mL, and the hexane extract of A. millefolium subsp. pannonica had the highest BChE activity with IC₅₀ value of 6.40 µg/mL. The ethanol extract of P. lanceolata exhibited the strongest inhibition against aflatoxin with 88% inhibition.

Keywords: Antiaflatoxigenic activity; Anticholinesterase activity; Antioxidant activity; Capsella bursa-pastoris; Plantago lanceolata; Rumex acetosella.