Chemical characterization of Artemisia mesatlantica essential oils and evaluation of their anticandidosic potential | Caractérisation chimique des huiles essentielles d’Artemisia mesatlantica et évaluation de leur potentiel anticandidosique
2017
Sekkat, Z.L. | Rouani, M. | Ghazi, S. | Il Idrissi, A. | Arahou, M. | Hassikou, R.
The present work has a twofold purpose, the first is to valorize an endemic species of Morocco, which is widely used in traditional medicine and the second to suggest an alternative to synthetic anti-candida products, especially against Candida albicans. It’s about the blue wormwood (Artemisia mesatlantica M.) which is rarely discussed in the literature.In order to do this, the essential oil from a recent technical by microwave (MO) and another traditional by steam distillation (EVE), were analyzed by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. The anti-candida tests of three essential oils extracted by microwave (MO), hydrodistillation (H) and stream distillation (E.V.E), were performed on five reference strains. Five-fold dilutions were prepared ranging from 50% (v/v) to 3.12% (v/v). The minimum inhibitory concentrations were determined by microdilution.The chemical composition of oils shows that the main components are: β-thujone for both techniques EVE (62,05%) and MO (51,81%), followed by camphor (14.39%) for MO and α- thujone (4.68%) for EVE. The best potential is obtained in the case of the essential oil extracted by microwave. Reference synthetic products were also tested with approved doses and are generally ineffective
Show more [+] Less [-]AGROVOC Keywords
Bibliographic information
This bibliographic record has been provided by National Agricultural Library