Caracterização química, atividade antioxidante e antimicrobiana do óleo essencial de Baccharis oreophila Malme

The Baccharis oreophila Malme belongs to the Asteraceae family. In Brazil are reported 120 species of Baccharis, most located in the South and Southeast regions, the latter presents the highest prevalence, especially in the state of São Paulo. Asteraceae is well known for the production of essential oils, which are liquid, volatile and aromatic substances produced by plants specialized for metabolism possess antibacterial, antifungal, and antioxidant properties. Thus, this study aimed, perform chemical and evaluate the antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of essential oil from dried leaves of B. oreophila collected in winter in Piraquara, Paraná. Obtaining essential oil was given by hydrodistillation in Clevenger apparatus, in triplicate, and the analysis was done using a gas chromatograph coupled to mass spectrometry GC / MS. The identification of the components was made based on retention indices calculated from the co-injection of a series of n-alkanes, followed by comparison of their mass spectra with literature. The antimicrobial activity was assessed by disk diffusion method and microdilution. The antioxidant activity was evaluated by the methods DPPH equivalent Trolox, ABTS and FRAP equivalent Trolox equivalent ferrous sulfate. The essential oil showed 0.47% yield. They identified 57 components (89.38%), 1.51% were classified as hydrogenated monoterpenes, oxygenated monoterpenes 15.14%, 34.84% and 37.87% hydrogenated sesquiterpenes sesquiterpenes oxygenates. As the major components were detected kusimono (16.37%), spathulenol (16.12%), the δ-cadinene (5.68%) and bicyclogermacrene (4.09%). The antimicrobial activity of essential oil was performed for the microorganisms Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923, Candida albicans ATCC 18804 and Candida tropicalis ATCC 13803, the results showed that the essential oil showed activity against S. aureus Inhibitory Concentration minimum (CIM) 1250 g/mL. In the evaluation of antioxidant activity essential oil showed antioxidant potential for the three methods evaluated, with values of 1,468 m.mol.L-1, 7.126 m.mol.L-1 and 45.515 m.mol.L-1 for ABTS, DPPH and FRAP, respectively. These results demonstrate that the essential oil of B. oreophila showed antimicrobial potential against S. aureus and interesting antioxidant activity, especially for the reducing power of iron ion, demonstrating their potential for future industrial applications. It is important to emphasize that were not observed in the literature reports highlighting such biological properties of B. oreophila oil.

Drimys brasiliensis essential oil as a source of drimenol.

Drimys brasiliensis Miers é uma espécie nativa da Mata Atlântica, conhecida popularmente por cataia, utilizada como estimulante, antidiarreica, antifebril, dentre outras propriedades. Folhas frescas e secas de cataia foram coletadas no outono/2012, submetidas à hidrodestilação em aparelho graduado tipo Clevenger durante um período de 4 horas após ebulição, retirando-se em seguida o óleo. No óleo de folhas frescas foram identificados 49 compostos, sendo 65,0% sesquiterpenos, 12,0% monoterpenos e 23,0% de outras substâncias. Já no óleo de folhas secas identificou-se 40 compostos, sendo 76,1% sesquiterpenos, 2,0% monoterpenos e 21,9% de outros compostos. Os principais constituintes para as folhas frescas foram germacreno D (8,9%), biciclogermacreno (5,3%), epi-alfa-cadinol (5,1%), alfa-cadinol (6,0%) e drimenol (9,3%). Já para as folhas secas, os principais constituintes foram germacreno D (6,3%), (E)-nerodidol (5,4%), espatulenol (9,5%), epi-alfa-cadinol (5,5%), alfa-cadinol (6,7%) e drimenol (11,6%). Devido a sua composição, a espécie possivelmente pode possuir algumas atividades como antifúngicas, antibacterianas, além de insetífuga, moluscocida e com propriedades farmacológicas que a espécie pode possuir.

Atividade antimalárica de plantas medicinais da biorregião do Araripe-CE em modelo murino - Plasmodium berghei

Malaria, also popularly known as maleita , intermittent fever, paludism, impaludism, third fever or fourth fever, is an acute infectious febrile disease, which, in human beings, is caused by four species: Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae and P. ovale. Malaria, one of the main infectious diseases in the world, is the most important parasitoses, with 250 million annual cases and more than 1 million deaths per year, mainly in children younger than live years of age. The prophylactic and therapeutic arsenal against malaria is quite restricted, since all the antimalarials currently in use have some limitation. Many plant species belonging to several families have been tested in vivo, using the murine experimental model Plasmodium berghei or in vitro against P. falciparum, and this search has been directed toward plants with antithermal, antimalarial or antiinflammatory properties used in popular Brazilian bolk medicine. Studies assessing the biological activity of medicinal plant essential oils have revealed activities of interest, such as insecticidal, spasmolytic and antiplasmodic action. It has also been scientifically established that around 60% of essential oils have antifungal properties and that 35% exhibit antibacterial properties. In our investigation, essential oils were obtained from the species Vanillosmopsis arborea, Lippia sidoides and Croton zethneri which are found in the bioregion of Araripe-Ceará. The chemical composition of these essential oils was partially characterized and the presence of monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes. The acute toxicity of these oils was assessed in healthy mice at different doses applied on a single day and on four consecutive days, and in vitro cytotoxicity in HeLa and Raw cell lines was determined at different concentrations. The in vivo tests obtained lethal dose values of 7,1 mg/Kg (doses administered on a single day) and 1,8 mg/Kg (doses administered over four days) for 50% of the animals. In the in vitro tests, the inhibitory concentration for 50% of cell growth in Hela cell lines was 588 μg/mL (essential oil from C. zethneri after 48 h), from 340-555 μg/mL (essential oil from L. sidoides, after 24 and 48 h). The essential oil from V. arborea showed no cytotoxicity and none of the essential oils were cytotoxic in Raw cell lines. These data suggest a moderate toxicity in the essential XVIII oils under study, a finding that does not impede their testing in in vivo antimalarial assays. Was shown the antimalarial activity of the essential oils in mice infected with P. berghei was assessed. The three species showed antimalarial activity from 36%-57% for the essential oil from the stem of V. arborea; from 32%-82% for the essential oil from the leaves of L. sidoides and from 40%-70% of reduction for the essential oil from the leaves of C. zethneri. This is the first study showing evidence of antimalarial activity with these species from northeast Brazil. Further studies to isolate the active ingredients of these oils are needed to determine if a single active ingredient accounts for the antimalarial activity or if a complex integration of all the compounds present occurs, a situation reflected in their biological activity

Microbiologia ambiental.

Impacto de mudanças climáticas globais sobre a microbiota terrestre - Raquel Ghini. Impacto de xenobióticos e metais pesados na microbiota do solo - Célia Maria Maganhotto de Souza Silva e Rosana Faria Vieira. Microrganismos, minerais e metais - Oswaldo Garcia Jr. e Denise Bevilaqua. Bioprospecção da diversidade microbiana cultivável e não cultivável - Raquel Silva Peixoto, Alexandre Soares Rosado e Rodrigo Gouvêa Taketani. Técnicas moleculares aplicadas aos estudos de ecologia microbiana: A PCR em tempo real - Paulo Teixeira Lacava e João Lúcio de Azevedo. Biofilmes microbianos - René P Schneider. Biossurfactantes - Fátima Menezes Bento, Flavio A. de Oliveira Camargo e Christine Claire Gaylarde. Importância ambiental da biocatálise - Viridiana Santana Ferreira-Leitão, Maria Antonieta Ferrara e Elba P S. Bom. Estratégias de isolamento de microrganismos envolvidos na degradação de xenobióticos - Itamar Soares de Melo e João Lúcio de Azevedo. Biodegradação anaeróbia - Rosana Filomena Vazoller, Márcia Helena Rissato Zamariolli Damianovic e Juliana Calábria Araújo. Biodegradação de compostos aromáticos - Aneli de Melo Barbosa, Ellen Cristine Giese e Luiz Gustavo Covizzi. Biodegradação de organoclorados no solo por basidiomicetos lignovelulolíticos - Vera Lúcia Ramos Bonomi, Kátia Maria Gomes Machado, Dácio Roberto Mateus e Vera Maria Vitali. Biodegradação de lignina e tratamento de efluentes por fungos ligninolíticos: atualização - Nelson Durán e Elisa Esposito. Biodegradação de corantes têxteis - Priscila Maria Dellamatrice, Regina Teresa Rosim Monteiro e Doralice de Souza Luro Balan. Biodegradação de superfícies pintadas - Denise de Souza Saad. Biodegradação de polímeros sintéticos - Sandra Mara Martins Franchetti, José Carlos Marconato e Adriana de Campos. Biodegradação de fungicidas - Célia Maria Maganhotto de Souza Silva, Elisabeth Francisconi Fay e Rosângela Blotta Abakerli. Biodegradação de monoterpenos - Lucia Regina Durrant. Degradação de cafeína por bactérias - Paulo Mazzafera e Dirce Mithico Yamaoka-Yano. Degradação abiótica de xenobióticos - Elisabeth Francisconi Fay, Célia Maria Maganhotto de Souza Silva e Itamar Soares de Melo. Biodeterioração no ambiente construído - Márcia A. Shirakawa, Vanderley M. John e Maria Alba Cincotto. Biodeterioração de monumentos históricos - Maria Aparecida de Resende. Biodeterioração de monumentos históricos - Maria Aparecida de Resende. Biorremediação de solos contaminados por petróleo e derivados - Paulo Negrais Seabra. Fitorremediação de metais - Marcia Pletsch, Á ndrea C. A. Barros e Brancilene S. de Araujo. Importância da rizosfera na biodegradação de xenobióticos - Itamar Soares de Melo. Microbiologia aquática marinha - Irnia Nelly G. Rivera, Claudete Rodrigues Paula e Claudiana Paula de Souza. Transferência horizontal de genes de plantas geneticamente modificadas: avaliação dos riscos para as comunidades microbianas - Welington Luiz Araújo, Priscilla de Barros Rossetto e Júlia Ifuklinsky-Sobral.