Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CHINESE MEDICINE
Volume 49, Issue 6, Pages 1369-1397Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X21500646
Keywords
Breviscapine; Scutellarin; Pharmacokinetics; Pharmacology; Review
Funding
- National Natural -Science Foundation of China [81760769]
- Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Key Research and Development Program [2018BEG03016, 2020BFG03007]
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Breviscapine is an extract of several flavonoids, with scutellarin as the main active component, showing a broad spectrum of pharmacological activities for treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Scutellarin and its analogs hold significant value in drug research and development.
Breviscapine is one of the extracts of several flavonoids of Erigeron breviscapus. Scutellarin is the main active component of breviscapine, and the qualitative or quantitative criteria as well. Scutellarin and its analogs share a similar skeleton of the flavonoids. Breviscapine has been widely used in the treatment of cerebral infarction and its sequelae, cerebral thrombus, coronary heart disease (CHD), and angina pectoris. Breviscapine has a broad spectrum of pharmacological activities, such as increasing blood flow, improving microcirculation, dilating blood vessels, decreasing blood viscosity, promoting fibrinolysis, inhibiting platelet aggregation, and thrombosis formation, etc. In addition, breviscapine and its analogs have significant value for drug research and development because of the superiority of those significant bioactivities. Furthermore, an increasing number of pharmacokinetic studies have explored the mechanism of scutellarin and its analogs. To provide a comprehensive understanding of the current research on breviscapine, scutellarin, and the analogs, the structural features, distribution situation, preparation method, content determination method, clinical applications, pharmacological action as well as pharmacokinetics are summarized in the present review.
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