Flavonoid-enriched fractions from Parastrephia lucida: Phytochemical, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant characterizations, and analysis of their toxicity

摘要

Parastrephia lucida (Meyen) Cabrera is an endemic species from the Argentinean Puna used in traditional medicine to relieve inflammation. To give scientific support to the ethnopharmacological claim, a bio-guided fractionation of a P. lucida extract was carried out according to its antioxidant activity (in vitro by different primary and secondary methodologies and in vivo on Caenorhabditis elegans) and its ability to inhibit proinflammatory enzymes (hyaluronidase and xanthine oxidase). Acute toxicity and genotoxicity of P. lucida were also studied by using Artemia salina and C. elegans bioassays, and Ames test, respectively. Compound characterization of P. lucida extracts and fractions was performed through UHPLC-quadrupole Orbitrap mass spectrometry.