Myrcene health benefit and fragrance
Myrcene is an natural organic compound classified as a hydrocarbon and a
monoterpene. Myrcene is obtained from the essential oil from the plants bay,
verbena, myrcia and others. Myrcene can also be synthesized by the pyrolysis of
pinene.
Myrcene is one of the most important chemicals used in the
perfume industry. Because
of its pleasant odor, Myrcene is occasionally used directly. But it is also
highly valued as an intermediate for the preparation of flavor and
fragrance chemicals such
as menthol, citral, citronellol, citronellal, geraniol, nerol, and linalool.
Myrcene antioxidant benefits
Protective effect of linalool, myrcene and eucalyptol against t-butyl
hydroperoxide induced genotoxicity in bacteria and cultured human cells.
Food Chem Toxicol. 2009 Jan; Mitić-Culafić D, Zegura B, Nikolić B,
Vuković-Gacić B, Knezević-Vukcević J, Filipic M. Mitić-Culafić D, Zegura B,
Nikolić B, Vuković-Gacić B, Knezević-Vukcević J, Filipic M. Chair of
Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 3/II,
11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
We studied the protective effect of monoterpenes myrcene, eucalyptol and
linalool against t-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BOOH) induced genotoxicity. Our
results indicate that linalool, eucalyptol and myrcene have substantial
protective effect against oxidant induced genotoxicity, which is predominately
mediated by their radical scavenging activity.
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