SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.87 issue3Antibacterial activity and chemical composition of the essential oil of Aloysia aloysioides LoesAnthocyanins in the cobs and extracts of purple corn (Zea Mays L) “INIA 615” preserved under shelf author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

  • Have no cited articlesCited by SciELO

Related links

  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO

Share


Revista de la Sociedad Química del Perú

Print version ISSN 1810-634X

Abstract

ENCISO ROCA, Edwin Carlos; AGUILAR FELICES, Enrique Javier; COMUN VENTURA, Pablo Williams  and  TINCO JAYO, Johnny Aldo. Anti-inflamatory and antioxidant activity of three varieties of Opuntia ficus-indica “Tuna”. Rev. Soc. Quím. Perú [online]. 2021, vol.87, n.3, pp.207-216. ISSN 1810-634X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.37761/rsqp.v87i3.348.

The anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activity of the hydroalcoholic extract of the fruit of the orange, purple and white varieties of Opuntia ficus-indica was determined. The methods were: total phenols by Folin-Ciocalteu, flavonoids by aluminum chloride and antioxidant activity by DPPH, ABTS and FRAP; the anti-inflammatory activity in vitro by the red blood cell membrane stabilization method. The total phenolic content for the orange, white and purple varieties were 4.08, 3.87 and 3.69 mg GAE/g (p> 0.05). The flavonoid content was higher in the orange variety with 2.36 mg QE/g, followed by the purple and white variety with 2.29 and 2.0 mg QE/g (p <0.05). In the free radical scavenger for DPPH the orange variety presents a higher activity of 6.20 μmol TE/g (p <0.05), for ABTS the purple variety presents 25.35 μmol ET/g (p<0.05) and for the ferric reducing activity potential (FRAP) the varieties did not show differences (p> 0.05). In the anti-inflammatory activity in vitro, the orange (60.32%), purple (51.37%) and white (36.01%) varieties showed lower activity, when were compared to dexamethasone (87.93%) and diclofenac (84.60%) (p <0.05). It is concluded that the pulp of the fruit of the three varieties from Opuntia ficus-indica "prickly pear" have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity

Keywords : Opuntia ficus-indica; phenolic compounds; flavonoids; antioxidant activity; anti-inflammatory activity..

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )