Antimicrobial activity of some lichen extracts
- Author:
- Nekhoroshev S.V., Leonov V.V., Nekhorosheva A.V., Gornikov N.V., Kot M.F. & Karpova Ya.A.
- Year:
- 2022
- Journal:
- Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal
- Pages:
- 55(11): 1190–1195
- Url:
- DOI 10.1007/s11094-022-02557-7
[Translated from the Russian original published in Khimiko-Farmatsevticheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 55, No. 11, pp. 22–27, November, 2021.]
Cladonia rangiferina is a bushy lichen of the genus Cladonia and has a multi-regional distribution. This plant
contains usnic acid as the main biologically active substance and has been tested against some opportunistic
microorganisms. Among the studied C. rangiferina extracts, only glycerol extracts obtained at an extraction
temperature of 40°C were biologically active and only against Gram-positive microorganisms (S. aureus) and
fungi (C. albicans). The antimicrobial activity of the extracts decreased if the extraction temperature was
raised to 90°C. The results showed that C. rangiferina lichen could be a potential rich source of effective
antimicrobial agents.
- Id:
- 34294
- Submitter:
- zdenek
- Post_time:
- Saturday, 09 April 2022 17:47