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JOURNAL OF THE BRAZILIAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 21, Issue 9, Pages 1760-1765Publisher
SOC BRASILEIRA QUIMICA
DOI: 10.1590/S0103-50532010000900024
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Drimys brasiliensis Miers; essential oil composition; antinociceptive; anti-inflammatory; acute toxicity
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The essential oils from leaves and stem barks from Drimys brasiliensis Miers (Winteraceae) were individually obtained by hydrodistillation and their compounds characterized by use of GC/FID and GC/MS. The main identified derivatives were monoterpenes (leaves 4.31% and stem barks 90.02%) and sesquiterpenes (leaves 52.31% and stem barks 6.35%). Additionally, the sesquiterpene polygodial was isolated from hexane extract from stem barks of D. brasiliensis after chromatographic steps and characterized by spectroscopic means, mainly NMR. Aiming the evaluation of anti-inflammatory potential, the crude essential oils and the sesquiterpene polygodial were subjected to bioassays to evaluate the acute toxicity of these compounds as well as the anti-inflammatory and antinociceptive activities induced by carrageenan and formalin in mices. Ours results showed that essential oil obtained from the stem barks significantly reduced the oedema induced by carrageenan. The anti-inflammatory effect induced by stem barks oil (at 200 mg kg(-1)) was similar to observed for indomethacin (at 10 mg kg-1) and superior for polygodial (at 200 mg kg(-1)) in 30 and 60 min after the administration of essential oils. The inflammatory response induced by formalin was effective to the stem barks oil (62.5%) in comparison to polygodial (50.0%).
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