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Inhibition of cholinesterase activity by extracts, fractions and compounds from Calceolaria talcana and C. integrifolia (Calceolariaceae: Scrophulariaceae).
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Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association [Food Chem Toxicol] 2013 Dec; Vol. 62, pp. 919-26. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Extracts, fractions and compounds from Calceolaria talcana and C. integrifolia exhibited strong inhibitory effects of the activity of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) enzymes using the in vitro Ellman's method. The most active samples were from the ethyl acetate extract, which caused a mixed-type inhibition against AChE (69.8% and 79.5% at 100 and 200 μg/ml, respectively) and against BChE (98.5% and 99.8% at 100 and 200 μg/ml, respectively) and its major components verbascoside 8 (50.9% and 70.0% at 200 μg/ml, against AChE and BChE, respectively), martynoside 9, and fraction F-7 (which corresponds to a mixture of 8, 9, and other phenylethanoids and phenolics that remain unidentified) (80.2% and 85.3% at 100 and 200 μg/ml, against AChE, respectively and 99.1% and 99.7% at 100 and 200 μg/ml, against BChE, respectively) inhibited the acetylcholinesterase enzyme competitively. The most polar fraction F-5 from n-hexane extract (a mixture of naphthoquinones: 2-hydroxy-3-(1,1-dimethylallyl-1,4-naphthoquinone) 6, α-dunnione 7 and other polar compounds that remain unidentified) showed a mixed-type inhibition (71.5% and 72.1% against AChE and BChE at 200 μg/ml, respectively). Finally, the methanol-soluble residue presented a complex, mixed-type inhibition (39.9% and 67.9% against AChE and BChE at 200 μg/ml, respectively). The mixture F-3 with diterpenes was obtained from the n-hexane extract: (1,10-cyclopropyl-9-epi-ent-isopimarol) 1, 19-α-hydroxy-abietatriene 2, and F-4 a mixture of triterpenes α-lupeol 3, β-sitosterol 4, ursolic acid 5 together with a complex mixture of terpenes that did not show activity. In summary, extracts and natural compounds from C. talcana and C. integrifolia were isolated, identified and characterized as cholinesterase inhibitors.
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- Acetylcholinesterase metabolism
Animals
Butyrylcholinesterase metabolism
Cholinesterase Inhibitors isolation & purification
Drug Evaluation, Preclinical methods
Plant Extracts analysis
Plant Extracts chemistry
Sitosterols chemistry
Sitosterols pharmacology
Spodoptera drug effects
Cholinesterase Inhibitors chemistry
Cholinesterase Inhibitors pharmacology
Insecticides chemistry
Insecticides pharmacology
Plant Extracts pharmacology
Scrophulariaceae chemistry
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1873-6351
- Volume :
- 62
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 24416779