Molecules, Vol. 29, Pages 1778: Gas Chromatography & ndash;Mass Spectrometry Chemical Profiling of Commiphora & nbsp;myrrha Resin Extracts and Evaluation of Larvicidal, Antioxidant, and Cytotoxic Activities

Molecules, Vol. 29, Pages 1778: Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Chemical Profiling of Commiphora myrrha Resin Extracts and Evaluation of Larvicidal, Antioxidant, and Cytotoxic Activities Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules29081778 Authors: Naimah Asid H. Alanazi Abdullah A. Alamri Abadi M. Mashlawi Nujud Almuzaini Gamal Mohamed Salama A. Salama Plant extracts and essential oils can be alternative environmentally friendly agents to combat pathogenic microbes and malaria vectors. Myrrh is an aromatic oligum resin that is extracted from the stem of Commiphora spp. It is used in medicine as an insecticide, cytotoxic, and aromatic. The current study assessed the effect of Commiphora myrrha resin extracts on the biological potency of the third larval stage of Aedes aegypti, as well as its antioxidant and cytotoxic properties against two types of tumor cells (HepG-2 and Hela cell lines). It also used GC–MS to determine the chemical composition of the C. myrrha resin extracts. Fifty components from the extracted plant were tentatively identified using the GC–MS method, with curzerene (33.57%) typically listed as the primary ingredient, but other compounds also make up a significant portion of the mixture, including 1-Methoxy-3,4,5,7-tetramethylnaphthalene (15.50%), β-Elemene (5.80%), 2-Methoxyfuranodiene (5.42%), 2-Isopropyl-4,7-Dimethyl-1-Naphthol (4.71%), and germacrene B (4.35%). The resin extracts obt...
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