Estudo de métodos de extração, quantificação dos polifenóis totais, avaliação das atividades antioxidantes e antimicrobianas da casca do caule de Croton palanostigma Klotzsch

Abstract

The Croton palanostigma is popularly known as "dragon blood" and used in folk medicine for the treatment of inflammatory diseases and wound healing. This paper proposes a study between the methodologies of conventional mining and extraction in supercritical carbon dioxide of stem bark of C. palanostigma, aiming to evaluate the extracts obtained income, the amount of total polyphenols, activities, antioxidant and anti-microbial. For the extraction process was conventional used jacketed extractor glass, in addition to a factorial design experiment of three factors and three levels of type Box-Behnken, with the objective of determining which variables (temperature, the extraction time and the relationship between mass/solvent) could influence the process, extraction for quantification of total polyphenols was used the method of Folin-Ciocalteau, with some changes and using the chart acid as a standard of reference, to analyze the antioxidant activity, we used the method of IC50, which measures the concentration needed to reach 50%of decrease in absorbance of DPPH radical and to the analysis antibiological was used the method of microdilution, whose goal was the determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration (CIM) Of all the tests ahead of the bacterial and fungal studied. The extraction methods used were efficient to obtain the extracts, with some qualitative differences, such as for example: color, viscosity and flavor. Quantitatively, the technique of conventional extraction presented a higher yield in their tests, however the same demanded much more time to process and greater amount of material used, both as botanist of solvent, in addition to all the variables assessed in this study were considered significant for the process, while the extraction supercritical the time used was significantly lower, as well as a lesser amount of botanical material and the co-solvent used (ethyl alcohol). For the quantification of total polyphenols found that the conventional extraction test 9 (T=45ºC; t=30 min; g/mL=1:2) was less efficient than those obtained by extracting supercritical (Test 1; T=40ºC; P=100 bar and Test 3; T=60ºC; P=300 bar) and having significant variables for the analysis time and relationship between mass and solvent. For antioxidant activity the best result was to extract conventional (IC50=30.71%) in relation to the test 3 (T=60ºC; P=300 bar) to extract supercritical (IC50=52.36) and having the variables, time and temperature its favorable conditions for the process. To analyze microbial all extracts obtained with the conventional extraction showed, in at least one of their concentrations, inhibitory activity against at least one of the pathogenic strains used in the test. For the samples obtained from the extraction in supercritical carbon dioxide to test 2 (T:60 ºC; P:200bar) showed no inhibitory activity against any bacterial strain used in the test, strain, bacterial Enterobacter did not suffer disqualification for none of the samples of supercritical carbon dioxide at a temperature of 60°C and E. coli also did not inhibit forward samples of extraction supercritical except test 1(T=40ºC; P=100 bar).