| Autor: |
Costa-Silva, Thais Alves da, Grecco, Simone S., de Sousa, Fernanda S., Lago, João Henrique G., Martins, Euder G. A., Terrazas, César A., Varikuti, Sanjay, Owens, Katherine L., Beverley, Stephen M., Satoskar, Abhay R., Tempone, Andre G. |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of Natural Products; April 2015, Vol. 78 Issue: 4 p653-657, 5p |
| Abstrakt: |
Three phenylpropanoid dimers (1–3) including two new metabolites were isolated from the extract of the twigs of Nectandra leucanthausing antileishmanial bioassay-guided fractionation. The in vitro antiparasitic activity of the isolated compounds against Leishmaniadonovaniparasites and mammalian cytotoxicity and immunomodulatory effects were evaluated. Compounds 1–3were effective against the intracellular amastigotes within macrophages, with IC50values of 26.7, 17.8, and 101.9 μM, respectively. The mammalian cytotoxicity, given by the 50% cytotoxic concentration (CC50), was evaluated against peritoneal macrophages. Compounds 1and 3were not toxic up to 290 μM, whereas compound 2demonstrated a CC50value of 111.2 μM. Compounds 1–3also suppressed production of disease exacerbatory cytokines IL-6 and IL-10 but had minimal effect on nitric oxide production in L.donovani-infected macrophages, indicating that antileishmanial activity of these compounds is mediated via an NO-independent mechanism. Therefore, these new natural products could represent promising scaffolds for drug design studies for leishmaniasis. |
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