Avaliação da atividade esquistossomicida do lapachol e análogos

Abstract

Mansonic chistosomiasis is a worldwide parasitic disease caused by Schistosomamansoni and its treatment performed with praziquantelhas some adverse reactions. The search for new drugs to treatment of this disease is important and medicinal plants can contribute with promising new molecules, such as lapachol. The present study evaluated the schistosomicidal activity of lapachol and analogues. Lapachol was isolated from Handroanthusserratifolius by silica gel chromatography column using dichloromethane as mobile phase. This substance was treated with sulfuric acid, followed by distilled water and dichloromethaneto obtain β-lapachone. To obtain α-lapachone, lapachol was solubilized and glacial acetic acid and concentrated hydrochloric acid were added. In order to evaluate schistosomicidal activity in vitro, an experiment was carried out on adult worms of S. mansoni, and morphology, motility and mortality in optic microscopy were evaluated. The active substance was submitted to the lipid peroxidation test, Malondialdehyde Dosage (MDA) and Total Antioxidant Capacity (TEAC). In addition, the active substance was submitted to cell viability assay (MTT), using the gastric epithelial (MNP01) and gastric adenocarcinoma (ACP02)strains. The active sample was evaluatedin vivo in infected mice, where wormsmortality, oviposition decrease and damage caused by parasites in animals were evaluated. Also, a histological study of kidney and liver of infected mouse treated with β-lapachone was performed. Lapachol (yield = 2.9%) and α-lapachone (yield = 60%) were not promise as schistosomicide, with their inhibitory concentrations being 50% higher than 500μg/mL in adult worms, whereas β-lapachone(yield = 65%) was very promising against adult worms (IC50 <31.25mg/mL). Analyzes in optical microscopy showed that β-lapachone treated worms presented tremor back, curled body, and lack of movement, these alterations may be related to lipid peroxidation in parasite membrane. This compound has a low antioxidant capacity, low cytotoxicity for the MNP01 and ACP02 strains, and the selectivity index is higher than 10. In vivo study showed that β-lapachone did not reduce the number of eggs in the faeces, so it did not inhibit ovoposition, and there were not alterations in the recoveredwormsnumber, and microscopic analysis showed they had motility and their membrane was integrated. Histological studies showed there were no renal and hepatic changes. In synthesis, β- lapachoneis promising as an in vitroschistosomicide and this activity may be related to lipid peroxidation in parasite membrane. However, in vitro study did not observe this activity, pharmacokinetic factors may be influencing results divergence.