Chemical Composition, Antioxidant Potential, and Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitory Activity of the Essential Oil from Croton alnifolius Lam.
Claudia Cruz, Pablo Muñoz, Nixon Cumbicus, Vladimir Morocho, Omar Malagón · 2025
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Description
An Ecuadorian shrub, Croton alnifolius, yields an essential oil that had never been chemically profiled. Claudia Cruz and co-authors steam-distilled the oil, in very low yield, and mapped its makeup with gas chromatography. Forty-nine compounds covered about ninety-five percent of the oil, led by caryophyllene, alpha-pinene, germacrene D, and myrcene.
Lab tests probed what the oil can do. It fought free radicals strongly in one standard assay. It also moderately blocked an enzyme tied to memory loss, a hint of neuroprotective promise. Germ killing was weak, needing a high dose against one test bacterium. The 2025 paper presents the oil as a rich source of sesquiterpenes worth further study.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Claudia Cruz, Pablo Muñoz, Nixon Cumbicus, Vladimir Morocho, Omar Malagón |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |