Cholinesterases Inhibitory and Antioxidant Activities of Harpagophytum procumbens from In Vitro Systems

Georgiev M. I., Alipieva K., ERDOĞAN ORHAN İ.

PHYTOTHERAPY RESEARCH, cilt.26, sa.2, ss.313-316, 2012 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 26 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2012
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1002/ptr.3555
  • Dergi Adı: PHYTOTHERAPY RESEARCH
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.313-316
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Harpagophytum procumbens in vitro systems, verbascoside (acteoside), AChE and BChE inhibition, antioxidant, ACTIVE CONSTITUENTS, ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

A previous report showed that extracts of cell suspension and transformed root cultures of Harpagophytum procumbens (commonly known as Devil's claw), an African plant with high medicinal value, exhibit strong antiinflammatory characteristics. The present work tests the ability of extracts, phenylethanoid-containing fractions and the major phenylethanoid glycoside isolated from the Devil's claw cultures, to inhibit acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase, and the antioxidant activity in iron-related systems (e.g. ferric-reducing antioxidant power and ferrous ion-chelating capacity). The results indicated that the phenylethanoid fractions may be attractive for various commercial purposes since they displayed significant cholinesterase inhibitory activity (even higher than that of pure galanthamine in the case of butyrylcholinesterase inhibition assay). Crude methanolic extracts from cell and hairy root cultures of Devil's claw exhibited strong ferrous ion-chelating capacity (1.52 times higher than pure butylated hydroxyanisole, used as positive standard). Copyright (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.