[THE AMOUNT OF ESSENTIAL OIL IN PLANT DRUGS].
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Examinations of the basic material for removable dentures, coated with rose, lavender, sage wax evidence that such coating essentially reduces residual methylmetacrylate migration and its side effect on the denture bed tissues, and improves the hygienic characteristics of dentures. Modification of the basic material by introducing Sklariol into the polymer considerably reduces the residual monomer migration. These results recommend coating of essential-oil plant wax for the prevention of denture bed tissue inflammations.
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Essential oils are volatile and can have good antimicrobial activity. We compared the effects of oil of basil (Ocimum basilicum) and essential oil components (thymol, carvacrol, and salicylaldehyde) to those of a placebo when placed in the ear canal of rats with experimental acute otitis media caused by pneumococci or Haemophilus influenzae. Progress was monitored by otomicroscopic examination and middle ear cultures. The treatment with oil of basil or essential oil components cured or healed 56%-81% of rats infected with H. influenzae and 6%-75% of rats infected with pneumococci, compared with 5.6%-6% of rats in the placebo group. Essential oils or their components placed in the ear canal can provide effective treatment of acute otitis media.
The volatile constituents of angelica root separated by extraction with etherpentane and by extraction with alcohol-water were investigated by means of glass capillary and preparative gas chromatography, IR, UV, NMR and mass spectrometry. 16 monoterpene hydrocarbons, 13 sesquiterpene hydrocarbons, 12 monoterpene alcohols, 4 oxygenated sesquiterpenes, 11 esters, 3 lactones, 7 aliphatic carbonyl compounds and 4 aromatics were identified. Twenty additional compounds identified were present only in the alcoholic sample. These consisted of ethyl ethers of monoterpene alcohols, ethyl esters of long-chain fatty acids, and acetals. The relative proportion of many compounds was found to depend on the method used to isolate the essential oil.
Protection against lipid oxidation and formation of unpleasant fishy and rancid off-flavors in oil-in-water food emulsions, such as fish oil enriched mayonnaise, is difficult to achieve. Volatile profiles from stored mayonnaises with different oil phase compositions were collected using a developed dynamic headspace sampling technique, in which interfering acetic acid was removed in situ with potassium hydroxide, and subsequently 148 volatiles were characterized and monitored by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Multivariate statistics showed correlation between the concentration of 62 volatiles and the fish oil and storage parameters, indicating the formation of lipid oxidation products, which impose fishy off-flavors. Further verification was obtained by gas chromatography/olfactometry, by which, among 78 odors, cis-4-heptenal and trans,cis-2,4-heptadienal were detected as distinct fishy notes. In total, 27 volatiles, including 1-penten-3-one, cis-2-penten-1-ol, cis-3-hexenal, cis-4-heptenal, 1-octen-3-one, 1,cis-5-octadien-3-one, 1-octen-3-ol, trans,cis-2, 4-heptadienal, and trans,cis-2,6-nonadienal, were suggested to contribute to the developed unpleasant fishy and rancid off-flavors.
The volatile components of Hallabong ([C. unshiu Marcov x C. sinensis Osbeck] x C. reticulata Blanco) cold-pressed peel oil were quantitatively and qualitatively determined by use of two internal standards with GC, GC-MS, and GC-olfactometry. According to instrumental analysis by GC and GC-MS, limonene (90.68%) was the most abundant compound, followed by sabinene (2.15%), myrcene (1.86%), and gamma-terpinene (0.88%). Flavor dilution (FD) factors of the volatile flavor components from Hallabong peel oil were determined by aroma extract dilution analysis. Furthermore, relative flavor activity was investigated by means of FD factor and weight percent. The highest FD factors were found for citronellal and citronellyl acetate, and delta-murollene showed a higher relative flavor activity. Results of sniff testing of the original oil and its oxygenated fraction revealed that citronellal, cis-beta-farnesene, and citronellyl acetate were regarded as the character impact odorants of Hallabong peel oil, and citronellal gave the most odor-active character of Hallabong aroma.
The experiments on white male mice have shown that the combined effect of different concentrations of mixtures of volatile products of thermooxidative decomposition of the lubricating oil 36/IKUA and hypoxia at altitudes 5,000; 7,000 and 8,000 m depends on the intensity of the combined factors. It is indicated that maximally allowable concentrations of the above mixtures in the space cabin atmosphere should be determined, taking into consideration the level of hypoxia.
As part of a program to determine the underlying factors responsible for genotoxicity and perhaps lung cancer risk in Chinese women, we qualitatively identified the volatile components emitted during the heating of cooking oils to 265 degrees C. 1,3-Butadiene, benzene, and a series of aldehydes, olefins, and saturated hydrocarbons were elucidated in vapors from Chinese rapeseed oil. On a relative basis, the intensity of 1,3-butadiene vapors from this were 15.7-, 6.3-, and 1.4-fold greater than in the vapors from peanut, soybean, and Canola oils, respectively. Thus, the Chinese rapeseed oil yielded a higher emission rate of 1,3-butadiene than the other three oils investigated. The benzene formation rate followed a similar trend, i.e., its intensity in Chinese rapeseed oil was 14-, 6.6-, and 1.7-fold greater than in vapors from peanut, soybean, and Canola oils, respectively.
Within the scope of a study of antitumour compounds in higher plants a survey is given concerning the presence of pyrrolizidine alkaloids, flavonoids and volatile compounds in Eupatorium species. Preliminary results of a phytochemical study of these compounds in E. cannabinum are also presented. From the results of a GC-MS analysis of an alkaloid extract from aerial parts of E. cannabinum the conclusion can be drawn, that the composition of pyrrolizidine alkaloids is more complicated than reported in literature. This is caused by the fact that different stereoisomers exist. The presence of at least two alkaloids with a molecular weight of 283 (supinine or isomers) and four alkaloids with a molecular weight of 299 (echinatine or isomers) could be shown. In subterranean plant material also other pyrrolizidine alkaloids are present. A great number of flavonoids, also as glycosides, have been shown in Eupatorium species, often in low quantities. Rutin, present in many Eupatorium species, could not be detected in subterranean parts of E. cannabinum. Relatively little attention has been paid to the analysis of volatile compounds (essential oils) of Eupatorium species. Thymol derivatives are often reported to be present in Eupatorium species. Thirty-five compounds could be detected by means of a GC-MS analysis in the essential oil of E. cannabinum about which no literature data were available.
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The volatile components of Citrus sphaerocarpa Tanaka (Kabosu) cold-pressed peel oil were investigated by chemical and sensory analyses. Monoterpene hydrocarbons (more than 94.6%) were predominant in Kabosu peel oil, with limonene and myrcene accounting for the major proportions (70.5% and 20.2%, respectively). The Kabosu oxygenated fraction was characterized by quantitative abundance in aldehydes and a relatively wide variety of alcohols. The weight percentages of aldehydes, alcohols, and esters in Kabosu cold-pressed oil were 1.3%, 0.1%, and 0.1%, respectively. Aroma extract dilution analysis was employed for determination of the odors of Kabosu volatile components, flavor dilution factors, and relative flavor activities. Gas chromatography/olfactometry using Kabosu cold-pressed oil and its oxygenated fraction completed by a chiral analysis revealed that (R)-(+)-citronellal is a characteristic element of Kabosu peel oil odor. Careful sniff testing demonstrated that aqueous solutions of both 0.25% and 0.016% (R)-(+)-citronellal gave an odor similar to that of Kabosu.
A 5 m x 50 microm capillary column with 0.05 microm stationary phase film thickness, with a calculated efficiency of almost 20,000 plates per metre (under optimum conditions), was used for very fasthigh resolution GC analysis of lime essential oil. The total analysis time of this volatile essential oil was less than 90 s. Fast GC is shown to be appropriate for essential oil quality assurance analysis, and quantitative results of key components are comparable with those obtained by using conventional GC analysis. The fast GC analysis is approximately 33 times faster than the conventional GC method.
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Volatiles of olive oils from 'tree-picked', 'ground-picked' and both mixed olives were analysed by solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography with flame ionisation detection (FID). Headspace sampling was carried out for 30min of fibre exposition at 40 degrees C of sampling temperature by the selected 74 microm polydimethylsiloxane/divinylbenzene (PDMS/DVB) fibre. Chromatographic data were analysed by principal components analysis (PCA) and then selected 14 compounds from x-loading of first principal component that provides a differentiation of oils accord its sensorial characterisation. Compounds such as 4-ethylphenol and styrene were identified by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) in 'ground-picked' olive oils.
The antimicrobial properties of volatile aromatic oils from medicinal as well as other edible plants has been recognized since antiquity. Origanum oil, which is used as a food flavoring agent, possesses a broad spectrum of in vitro antimicrobial activities attributed to the high content of phenolic derivatives such as carvacrol and thymol. In the present study, antifungal properties of origanum oil were examined both in vitro and in vivo. Using Candida albicans in broth cultures and a micro dilution method, comparative efficacy of origanum oil, carvacrol, nystatin and amphotericin B were examined in vitro. Origanum oil at 0.25 mg/ml was found to completely inhibit the growth of C. albicans in culture. Growth inhibitions of 75% and >50% were observed at 0.125 mg/ml and 0.0625 mg/ml level, respectively. In addition, both the germination and the mycelial growth of C. albicans were found to be inhibited by origanum oil and carvacrol in a dose-dependent manner. Furthermore, the therapeutic efficacy of origanum oil was examined in an experimental murine systemic candidiasis model. Groups of mice (n = 6) infected with C. albicans (5 x LD50) were fed varying amounts of origanum oil in a final vol. of 0.1 ml of olive oil (vehicle). The daily administration of 8.6 mg of origanum oil in 100 microl of olive oil/kg body weight for 30 days resulted in 80% survivability, with no renal burden of C. albicans as opposed to the group of mice fed olive oil alone, who died within 10 days. Similar results were obtained with carvacrol. However, mice fed origanum oil exhibited cosmetically better clinical appearance compared to those cured with carvacrol. The results from our study encourage examination of the efficacy of origanum oil in other forms of systemic and superficial fungal infections and exploration of its broad spectrum effect against other pathogenic manifestations including malignancy.
Fifty-three volatile constituents from the juice and twenty from the peel oil of Microcitrus inodora have been identified by gas chromatographic and mass spectral analysis. All except seven had been reported earlier as citrus constituents. Since M. inodora is used as a parent for production of new citrus hybrids, this information will be useful to horticulturists, plant breeders and phytochemists.