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JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY
Volume 139, Issue 1, Pages 189-193Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2011.10.036
Keywords
Antitussive; Expectorant; Anti-inflammatory; Alkaloid; Bulbus Fritillaria Cirrhosae; Fritillaria wabuensis
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2009BAI84802]
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Ethnopharmacological relevance: Bulbus Fritillaria Cirrhosae (BFC), known by the Chinese name Chuan-Bei-Mu, is used as an antitussive, antiasthmatic and expectorant drug for more than 2000 years in China, and Bulbus of Fritillaria wabuensis S. Y. Tang & S. C. Yueh (BFW) was recorded in the 2010 edition of China Pharmacopoeia as one of sources for BFC. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the antitussive, expectorant and anti-inflammatory effects of alkaloids - imperialine, imperialine-beta-N-oxide, isoverticine, and isoverticine-beta-N-oxide, which were isolated from BFW, and to provide experimental evidence for its traditional use. Materials and methods: The alkaloids were isolated using phytochemical methods, and their structures were determined by spectroscopic analysis. Their antitussive effects were measured using murine model of ammonia induced cough, the expectorant effects were evaluated by measuring mice's tracheal phenol red output, and the anti-inflammatory effects were assessed by using the murine model of xylene induced ear edema. Results: The structures of the four alkaloids - imperialine, imperialine-beta-N-oxide, isoverticine, and isoverticine-beta-N-oxide isolated from BFW were confirmed. The four alkaloids significantly inhibited cough frequency and increased latent period of cough in mice induced by ammonia. Imperialine and isoverticine showed obviously antitussive activities in a dose-dependent manner. Besides, the four alkaloids markedly enhanced mice's tracheal phenol red output in expectorant assessment and significantly inhibited the development of ear edema in anti-inflammatory evaluation assay. Moreover, significant differences were found between the structure-activity relationships of the four alkaloids. Conclusions: The four alkaloids exhibited significant antitussive, expectorant and anti-inflammatoryactivities. We suggest that they may be the active ingredients of BFW. The results of the present study provided evidence for BFVV to be used as an antitussive and expectorant Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). (C) 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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