Study on Anti-oxidative and Anti-tyrosinase Activities of Polygonum Cuspidatum Extracts

• Main Authors: Chen Yong Zhi, 陳勇智
• Other Authors: Chang Yaw Nan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73280990336275937260

碩士 === 大葉大學 === 生物產業科技學系 === 95 === The resveratrol contents, anti-oxidative ( DPPH-free-radical-scavenging effect ) and anti-tyrosinase activities of Polygonum cuspidatum ( one of Chinese traditional medicine ) extracts with 100% pure water ( Wes ) and 10% and 70% ethanol solutions ( 0.1 EtEs and 0.7 EtEs, respectively ) were investigated in this study. The maximum extract content ( 30% extraction yield ) and resveratrol ( 1.57% dried weight ) was obtained from the freeze-dried 0.7 EtEs of P. cuspidatum. Among the P. cuspidatum extracts, only the freeze-dried 0.7 EtEs had strong DPPH-scavenging effects or anti-oxidative activities, while the activities of the freeze-dried 0.7 EtEs first gradually decreased to a certain value as increasing their addition concentrations or resveratrol contents, and then increased as increasing the concentrations or contents. For the other P. cuspidatum extracts, the anti-oxidative activities first increased and then decreased to some certain values as increasing their addition concentrations or resveratrol contents. Except that the tyrosinase relative activities of the hot-dried WEs and 0.1 EtEs were kept at 80%~90%, the freeze-dried 0.7 EtEs also had stronger anti-tyrosinase activities than the others. However, the tyrosinase relative activities started decreasing from original 70% or the anti-tyrosinase activities became much significant and effective when the addition concentrations or resveratrol contents of the freeze-dried 0.7 EtEs were over 1000 g/mL or 15.7 g, respectively. In this study, only the freeze-dried 0.7 EtEs had the higher extract and resveratrol contents and stronger anti-oxidative anti-tyrosinase activities than the others.