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Avaliação da atividade antinociceptiva e anti-inflamatória da Pellucidina A e elucidação do mecanismo de ação em modelos in vivo
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-10-13) QUEIROZ, Amanda Pâmela dos Santos; MAIA, Cristiane do Socorro Ferraz; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4835820645258101; BASTOS, Gilmara de Nazareth Tavares; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2487879058181806
The Peperomia pellucida (Piperaceae) is an herbaceous plant commonly found in the American and Asian continents. In the Amazon the species is known by the name of erva-de-jabuti. This plant is used in folk medicine to treat a wide range of symptoms and diseases such as conjunctivitis, headache, asthma, gastric ulcer, inflammation and arthritis. Pellucidin A is an isolated compound of the species Peperomia pellucida and this study aimed to analyze the antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activity of this compound, as well as to elucidate its mechanism of action. For the assays, male albino mice (25-40 g) were used, which were initially treated with pellucidin A at the doses of 0.5; 1 and 5 mg / kg (i.p.) and subjected to locomotor evaluation by the open field test and animal models of acute pain, such as acetic acid-induced abdominal writhing tests, formalin tests and the hot plate test. The acetic acid-induced abdominal contortion test was realized to elucidate the mechanism of action in which the animals were treated at the standard dose of 5 mg/kg (i.p.) and for anti-inflammatory analysis of the compound was used model of granuloma induced by pellets of cotton, in which the animals were treated in the dose of 10 mg/kg (i.p.). The compound did not show capacity to change the ambulation of the animals at any of the administered doses. In the contortion test, pellucidin A was able to inhibit the number of abdominal writhings in 43% at the dose of 1 mg/kg, and 65% at the dose of 5 mg/kg. In the formalin test, an antinociceptive effect was observed at the dose of 5 mg/kg, with a 68% reduction in the lymph time of the animal's paw in the inflammatory phase, showing a similar response to Indomethacin used at a dose of 10 mg/kg as positive control for this phase. Animals treated with pellucidin A and subjected to the hot plate assay did not show any change in their latency time on the plate, showing a similar response to the animals treated just with the vehicle solution. For the elucidation of the action mechanism, the pellucidin A was administered at the standard dose of 5 mg/kg (i.p.) and associated with Indomethacin (5 mg/kg i.p.), NS-398 (10 mg/kg i.p.) cyproeptadine (0.5 mg/kg i.p.), naloxone (1 mg/kg i.p.) and L-NAME (5 mg/kg i.p.). The pellucidin A has shown a synergistic action when associated with cyproeptadine and L-NAME, with a decrease in the pattern of abdominal writhing by 97% when associated with cyproheptadine and 96% with L-NAME. In the analysis of the action of pellucidin A (10 mg/kg i.p.) in the granuloma test induced by cotton pellets, pellucidin A presented anti-inflammatory activity, reduced granuloma formation in 24% in the treated mice. The results confirm the hypothesis that pellucin A presents analgesic activity capable of interfering in the inflammatory process, acting as a possible glucocorticoid agonist.
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Caracterização físico-química e análises por espectrofotometria e cromatografia de Peperomia pellucida L. (H. B. K.)
(2013) SILVA, Rosali Maria Ferreira da; RIBEIRO, Jeane Francisca Alves; FREITAS, Manolo Cleiton Costa de; ARRUDA, Mara Silvia Pinheiro; NASCIMENTO, M.N.; BARBOSA, Wagner Luiz Ramos; ROLIM NETO, Pedro José
The aim of this study was the physical chemical characterization of the powder and the tincture, and the chromatographic and spectrophotometric analysis of the Peperomiapellucida L. (H. B. K.) dry extract. The methodology followed the Farmacopeia Brasileira IV ed., except for the chemical prospection, the chromatographic profile obtained and the spectrophotometry of the dry extract, and determination of dried residues. The chemical prospection revealed the presence of foaming saponins; reducing sugars; proteins and amino acids; phenols; tannins; flavonoids; steroids and triterpenoids; depsideos and depsidones. The best profile from TLC for flavonoidic fraction was obtained with methanol/formic acid (90:10 v/v). HPLC confirmed the presence of 3 ‘,4’,7-tri-methoxyflavone in the dry extract of the plant material. The results obtained in this work should contribute for the determination of specifications for a future monograph on Peperomia pellucida L. (H.B.K.)