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Record W2158118616 · doi:10.1080/13880200701734752

Antioxidant and Antiproliferative Potential of Pearled Barley (<i>Hordeum vulgarae</i>.)

2008· article· en· W2158118616 on OpenAlex
Terrence Madhujith, Fereidoon Shahidi

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Bibliographic record

VenuePharmaceutical Biology · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPhytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsChemistryAntioxidantFerulic acidHydroxyl radicalChromatographyRadicalHordeum vulgareFlavonoidNuclear chemistryFood scienceBiochemistryBotanyBiologyPoaceae

Abstract

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Two barley varieties, Falcon and AC Metcalfe, were separated by pearling into seven fractions. Each fraction was subsequently extracted with 80% methanol. Total phenolic content of the extracts so obtained was determined by the Folin-Ciocalteu method and ranged from 0.51 to 6.26 and 0.17 to 4.16 mg ferulic acid equiv/g defatted material, respectively. In both barley varieties, the outermost fraction (F1) yielded the highest phenolic content. The extracts were evaluated for their efficacy in scavenging of peroxyl and hydroxyl radicals using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). IC50 value, an indicator of efficacy of a test extract in reducing radical concentration by 50%, ranged from 3.51 to 3.71 mg/mL and 0.27 to 0.51 mg/mL for peroxyl radical for Falcon and AC Metcalfe fraction extracts, respectively. The corresponding values for hydroxyl radical ranged from 0.51 to 3.30 mg/mL and 0.68 to 3.75 mg/mL. Metal chelation activity was determined using the 2,2′-bipyridyl competition assay. Effectiveness of phenolic extracts in inhibiting radical-induced supercoiled DNA breakage was also evaluated. Finally, the potential of phenolic extracts in inhibiting the growth of Caco-2 human adenocarcinoma cells was determined. Barley fractions showed a high level of antiproliferative activity toward inhibition of Caco-2 human colorectal adenocarcinoma cells. Percentage inhibition of cancer cells rendered by Falcon and AC Metcalfe barley fraction extracts ranged from 14% to 74% and 21% to 57%, respectively, at 0.5 mg/mL concentration. The results indicate that barley fractions tested possess significant antioxidant and antiproliferative activities.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.049
Threshold uncertainty score0.532

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it