Date of Graduation
5-2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering
Degree Level
Undergraduate
Department
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Advisor/Mentor
Haggard, Brian
Committee Member/Reader
Costello, Thomas
Committee Member/Second Reader
Osborn, Scott
Committee Member/Third Reader
Djioleu, Angele
Abstract
Sweetgum bark extract has been known to show biological activities such as antimicrobial and antioxidant capabilities. The storage capacity of the extract, however, was unknown and previously thought to diminish over time. However, upon experimentation, the freeze-dried sweetgum bark extract showed no signs that storage time or storage temperature had any significant effect on the biological activities. There was no significant difference across storage temperature over time in the experiment (ANOVA RM, P0.05). Therefore, the antioxidant capabilities of the sweetgum extract were not affected by the storage time or temperature treatments studied in this work. For the antimicrobial experiment, there was no significant difference across storage temperature over time in the experiment (ANOVA RM, P
Keywords
sweetgum bark, antioxidants, medicine
Citation
Schneider, J. (2017). Effect of Storage Temperature and Time on Lyophilized Water Bark Extract's Biological Activity. Biological and Agricultural Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/baeguht/42