@conference{
author = "Šućur, Jovana and Malenčić, Đorđe and Manojlović, Ana and Prvulović, Dejan and Slavkovska, Violeta",
year = "2018",
abstract = "Wild-growing plants are good potential sources of natural substances useful for preventing diseases related to oxidative stress. Th e food industry is becoming increasingly interested
in plants, because of their anti-infl ammatory properties and antioxidant activities. In the present investigation, we described the antioxidant potential of acetone extracts of three aromatic species grown on Kopaonik mountain, Ajuga pyramidalis L., Th ymus praecox Opiz and Vaccinium myrtillus L. by two methods: 2,2-azinobis(3-ethyl-benzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS) scavenging and 2,2-diphenyl-1-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging assay and their correlations with total phenolics, tannins, fl avonoids and proanthocyanidins contents. Th e total phenolic and tannins content was determined according to the Folin–Ciocalteu method. Th e total fl avonoids were estimated according to the method described by Markham (1989) and proanthocyanidins according to Sun et al. (1998). For ABTS assay, the procedure followed
the method of Re et al. (1999) with some modifi cations. Th e DPPH assay was done according to the method of Lee et al. (1998). T. praecox extract had the almost twice higher phenolics and tannins content compared to V. myrtillus, which had twice higher total phenolics and tannins content than A. pyramidalis. On the other hand, A. pyramidalis had the highest amount of proanthocyanidins, while the content of total fl avonoids was the highest in V. myrtillus. Th e highest scavenging activity showed T. praecox extract (DPPH: 69,67±0,46 mg trolox/gdw; ABTS: 178,11±0,96 mg trolox/gdw), and the lowest activity showed A. pyramidalis extract. Antioxidant capacity was positively correlated with total phenolics, tannins and flavonoids content. From the obtained results it can be concluded that T. praecox extract had the greatest antioxidant
potential.",
publisher = "Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden Jevremovac, Belgrade",
journal = "Botanica Serbica, The 7th Balkan Botanical Congress – 7BBC 2018, Book of abstracts",
title = "Antioxidant potential and polyphenolic content of three medicinal wild-growing species from Kopaonik mountain",
volume = "42",
number = "supplement 1",
pages = "146-146",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_farfar_5524"
}