Effects of continuous UV-irradiation on the antioxidant activities of quercetin and rutin in solution in the presence of lecithin as the protective target

Autor: Dejan Markovic, Dragan Cvetković, Dragana Cvetkovic, Blaga Radovanovic
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society. 76:973-985
ISSN: 1820-7421
0352-5139
DOI: 10.2298/jsc101123089c
Popis: The stabilities and antioxidant action of two selected flavonoids, quercetin and rutin, dissolved in methanol and water, toward continuous UV-irradiation from three different sub-ranges (UV-A, UV-B and UV-C) were studied. The flavonoids underwent degradation (bleaching) following first-order kinetics. The bleaching rates were highly dependent on the energy input of the involved UV-photons. The antioxidant activities of the two flavonoids on UV-induced lecithin lipid peroxidation were studied by the TBA-MDA test, and appeared to be also affected by the continuous UV irradiation. The energy input of the incident UV-photons again played a major governing role, but an impact of the flavonoids structures cannot be neglected.
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