Antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of five medicinal Libyan plants extracts英文文献资料.docVIP

Vol.4, No.5, 324-335 (2012) Natural Science /10.4236/ns.2012.45045 Antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of five medicinal Libyan plants extracts Rabia Alghazeer , Hussein El-Saltani , Nabeel Saleh , Asma Al-Najjar , Fatma Hebail 1* 1 1 2 1 1 * 2 Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences, Tripoli University, Tripoli, Libya; Corresponding Author: Rabia_alghazeer@ Soil Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tripoli University, Tripoli, Libya Received 10 March 2012; revised 7 April 2012; accepted 19 April 2012 ABSTRACT nols, flavonoids, quinones, tannins, alkaloids, saponins, and sterols which are important sources of biocides and many other pharmaceutical drugs [2-8]. Medicinal plants are important in pharmacological research and drug de- velopment [9]. The most important secondary plant me- tabolites are phenols and flavonoids [10,11], they have distinctive biological activity as natural antioxidants which exceed many other synthetic ones [12]. Antioxidants are used to preserve food quality mainly because they arrest oxidative deterioration of lipids [13, 14]. Moreover, the exploration of naturally occurring antimicrobials for food preservation receives increasing attention due to consumer awareness of natural food pro- ducts and a growing concern of microbial resistance to- wards conventional preservatives [15]. These factors have inspired the widespread screening of new plant species for possible medicinal and antioxidant properties, while the isolation and characterization of diverse phytoche- micals [16,17]. The relationship between oxidative stress and antioxi- dants is very often explained in a very simple manner. First, reactive oxygen species (ROS) are reacted together as one functional entity producing destruction compounds such