%0 Journal Article
%T Chemical composition and cholinesterase inhibition of essential oils of three chemotypes from Croton zehntneri
%A Santos
%A H¨¦lcio S.
%A Furtado
%A Elaine F.
%A Bertini
%A Luciana M.
%A Bandeira
%A Paulo N.
%A Albuquerque
%A Maria R. J. Ribeiro
%A Menezes
%A Jane E. S. Alencar
%A Trevisan
%A Maria Teresa S.
%A Lemos
%A Telma L. G
%J Revista latinoamericana de qu¨ªmica
%D 2010
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X croton zehntneri pax. & k. hoffm. (euphorbiaceae) is an aromatic plant native of the northeaster region of brazil; and is popularly known as "canela de cunh£¿". the chemical composition of the essential oils from leaves, stalks and roots from three chemotypes of c. zehntneri obtained by hydrodistillation were analyzes by gc-ms. e-anethole, was the main component in the essential oils of all plants parts of che-motype 1. while the phenylpropanoids stragole, eugenol, z-methyl isoeugenol and e-methyl isoeugenol were the major component in the essential oils of chemotypes 2 and 3, respectively. on tlc the essential oils and the major compounds showed an acetylcholine esterase inhibitory effect.
%K croton zehntneri
%K euphorbiaceae
%K essential oils
%K phenylpropanoids
%K chemotypes
%K cholinesterase inhibition.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0370-59432010000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en