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Further sesquiterpene lactones from viguiera robusta and the potential anti-inflammatory activity of a heliangolide: Inhibition of human neutrophil elastase release
Fecha
2008Registro en:
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURFORSCHUNG SECTION C-A JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES, v.63, n.7/Ago, p.533-538, 2008
0939-5075
Autor
ARAKAWA, Nilton S.
SCHORR, Karin
AMBROSIO, Sergio R.
MERFORT, Irmgard
COSTA, Fernando B. Da
Institución
Resumen
In addition to known heliangolides, a new eudesmanolide was isolated from the leaf rinse extract of Viguiera robusta (Asteraceae). Structural elucidation was based oil spectral analysis. It is the first report on eudesmanolides in members of the subgenus Calanticaria of Viguiera. In this work, the main isolated compound, the furanoheliangolide budlein A, besides its previously, reported in vitro and in vivo anti-inflammatory activities, inhibited human neutrophil elastase release. The inhibition was at the concentration of (16.83 +/- 1.96) mu M for formylated bacterial tripeptide (fMLP) stimulation and (11.84 +/- 1.62) mu M for platelet aggregation factor (PAF) stimulation, being slightly less active than the reference drug parthenolide. The results are important to demonstrate the potential anti-inflammatory activities of sesquiterpene lactones and corroborate the previous studies using other targets.