Anti-ulcerogenic effects of Spartium junceum flowers on in vivo test models in rats

Autor: Ekrem Sezik, Erdem Yesilada, Tetsuro Fujita, Yoshihisa Takaishi
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 70:219-226
ISSN: 0378-8741
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-8741(99)00180-4
Popis: Flowers of Spartium junceum L. (Fabaceae) are used for the treatment of gastric ulcers in Turkish folk medicine. Through bioassay-guided fractionation using chemical and chromatographical means and water immersion and restraint-induced stress ulcer model in rats, a saponin fraction was determined as the potent anti-ulcerogenic ingredient. The active fraction was also highly effective in preventing ethanol- and pyloric ligation-induced gastric lesions as well as inhibiting gastric secretion volume, gastric pH and titratable acidity, but did not affect the hexosamine content of the gastric mucosa. A novel oleanen-type triterpenic saponin, named as spartitrioside, was isolated as the active principle by using chromatographical separation techniques. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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