Comparison of Chemical Compositions and Antioxidant Activities of the Essential Oils of Two Ziziphora. Taxa from Anatolia

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Table 1 Quantitive compositions of the essential oils of two Ziziphora. subspecies.

Compounds	RI	Ziziphora taurica subsp.. cleonioides. %	Ziziphora taurica subsp.. taurica. %
α-Pinene^a.	940	0.54	—
β.-Pinene^a.	982	0.71	—
Yomogi alcohol^b.	1000	3.27	—
p.-Cymene^a.	1025	0.10	0.54
Limonene^a.	1032	3.59	0.54
Linalool^a.	1100	—	7.65
Isomenton^a.	1167	0.21	—
Isopulegon	1181	1.70	—
α-Terpineol^a.	1189	—	1.31
(+)-Pulegone^a.	1223	69.24	0.36
Geranial	1273	—	0.54
Thymol^a.	1294	—	2.54
Carvacrol^a.	1301	0.49	—
Piperitenone	1318	6.47	—
α-Copaene	1376	0.09	1.97
β-Bourbonene	1388	—	1.14
β-Caryophyllene^a.	1421	0.18	24.80
Aromadendrene	1439	0.37	—
β-Farnesene	1446	—	0.76
α-Humulene^a.	1457	—	1.55
Germacrene-D^a.	1482	—	7.92
cis.-Calamenene	1523	0.15	—
Delta-Cadinene	1528	—	1.31
Germacrene-B^b.	1559	—	0.47
Nerolidol	1569	—	1.04
Spathulenol	1581	—	1.45
Caryophyllene oxide^a.	1587	1.32	26.16
Cedrol	1603	—	0.64
% Total		88.49	82.69

Major compounds listed in bold.

^a.Comparison with commercial standards.

^b.Based on only MS data.

Table 2 The results of LPO, GSH levels and antioxidant enzyme activities.

Groups (n = 20)	LPO (nmol/g Hb)	GSH (µg/g Hb)	CAT (AU/g Hb)	SOD (U/g Hb)	GPx (U/g Hb)
Control group	9.260 ± 0.874	76.100 ± 3.990	24.620 ± 1.774	1364.139 ± 87.824	110.539 ± 11.285
H2O2 group	20,968±2.310	12.900**±0.820	42.392±1.956	3826.294**±131.217	257.084±14.833
Ziziphora taurica. subsp. cleonioides. group	12.968 ± 1.995 (ns)	69.900 ± 1.171 (ns)	28.544 ± 1.947 (ns)	1396.770 ± 154.865 (ns)	120.540 ± 6.480 (ns)
Ziziphora taurica. subsp. taurica. group	10.619 ± 1.848 (ns)	70.000 ± 2.80 (ns)	27.157 ± 1.578 (ns)	1260.850 ± 189.265 (ns)	119.156 ± 12.172(ns)

LPD, lipid peroxidation; GSH, reduced glotathione; CAT, catalase; SOD, superoxide dismutase; GPx, glutathione peroxidase.