Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Lima, Clésio Andrade |
| Publication Date: |
2011 |
| Format: |
Master thesis
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| Language: |
por |
| Source: |
Repositório Institucional da UFS |
| Download full: |
https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/3824
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Summary: |
The interest in evaluating the effect of the phytochemical constituents in food and herb teas in attenuating the oxidative stress associated with high intensity physical exercise has increased in the last years. In this context, leaf tea of plants of the Passiflora genus can inhibit the cell damage because of the oxidative stress due to the presence of phenolic compounds. In the present study, the phytochemical profile was investigated by colorimetric or precipitation methods, while the total phenol content was quantified by the Folin-Ciocalteu method. To study the acute and chronic effect of the extract on the oxidative stress, Wistar rats (250-300 g) were divided randomly into groups (n=8 and n=6, respectively) that were treated with the extract and were submitted or not to high intensity physical exercises. The oxidative stress marker levels were analyzed. Because of the high content of phenolic constituents (430.63 ± 46.71 μg EAG.g-1 extract), it was verified a scavenger activity of the free radicals DPPH● and ABTS●+ up of 97%. The extract inhibited also levels of lipid peroxidation induced by AAPH (above 95 %), FeSO4 (up 40.82%) and H2O2 (up62.50%), suggesting the the extract is active against peroxil and hydroxyl radical. The acute administration of the extract protected rats from lipoperoxidation with reductions in levels in plasmatic (70.41%), hepatic (64.1%) and cardiac (20.0 %) samples, and protected liver against protein oxidation (94.08%). Sulfhydryl levels in plasmatic (264.32%), hepatic (261.86%) and cardiac (478.8%) tissues were high. The research showed that physical training used was able to increase lipid oxidation in the urinary tract (201%), blood tissue (123%) and liver (161%), and the protein oxidation rate (226%) rats exercised compared to sedentary control group. In contrast, treatment with the extract , after 8 weeks of treating the rats submitted to high intensity physical exercises with the extract, there was a chronic prevention of the lipoperoxidation in structures of the urinary (50.96%), plasmatic (39.91%), hepatic (83.64%) and cardiac (15.82%) tissues, as well as, oxidative lesion of hepatic proteins (9.62%). Therefore, these results suggest benefits of P. cincinnata leaf ethanol extract to health. |