Chemistry & Biodiversity 2015-11-01

Antioxidants, Enzyme Inhibitors, and Biogenic Compounds in Grain Extracts of Barleys.

Tibor Maliar, Gabriela Slaba, Peter Nemeček, Mária Maliarová, Michaela Benková, Michaela Havrlentová, Miroslav Ondrejovič, Ján Kraic

Index: Chem. Biodivers. 12 , 1678-95, (2015)

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Abstract

The content of biogenic compounds and the biological activities of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)-grain extracts was evaluated. The sufficiently large and heterogeneous set of barley genotypes (100 accessions) enabled the selection of special genotypes interesting for potential industrial, pharmaceutical, and medicinal applications. Barley genotypes with the highest contents of phenols, phenolic acids, flavonoids, biogenic thiols, and amines, radical-scavenging activity, as well as inhibitory activities of trypsin, thrombin, collagenase, urokinase, and cyclooxygenase were identified. Copyright © 2015 Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta AG, Zürich.