Journal
PHARMACEUTICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 8, Pages 878-882Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/13880200903303471
Keywords
Antimycobacterial activity; Indigofera suffruticosa; innate immune response
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- FAPESP
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis is responsible for over 8 million cases of tuberculosis (TB) annually. Natural products may play important roles in the chemotherapy of TB. The antimycobacterial activity and the innate immune response of methanol (METH) and dichloromethane (DCM) extracts of Indigofera suffruticosa Miller (Fabaceae) were evaluated. We observed that the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) for METH and DCM extracts were 125 and 1000 mu g/mL, respectively. However, they were able to induce the innate immune response through the production of high levels of NO and TNF-alpha (p < 0.001) by peritoneal exudate cells (PECs). These results suggest that I. suffruticosa extracts may have an important immunological role in the control of TB once macrophage activity is induced by them.
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