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JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY
卷 140, 期 1, 页码 141-144出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2011.12.048
关键词
Antimycobacterial; Aralia nudicaulis; Falcarinol; Panaxydol; Polyacetylenes; Mycobacterium tuberculosis
资金
- NSERC
- New Brunswick Health Research Foundation
- Harrison McCain Foundation
- Horizon Health Network
- UNB
Ethnopharmacological relevance: Aralia nudicaulis, or wild sarsaparilla, is used as a traditional medicinal plant for the treatment of various illnesses by many of the Canadian First Nations. Iroquois and Algonquin First Nations of Eastern Canada use a tea prepared from dried Aralia nudicaulis rhizome as a cough medicine and for the treatment of tuberculosis. Previous investigations of aqueous extracts of Aralia nudicaulis rhizomes have shown it to possess antimycobacterial activity. Aim of the study: To isolate and identify antimycobacterial constituents from Aralia nudicaulis rhizomes. Materials and methods: Methanolic extracts of Aralia nudicaulis rhizomes were subjected to bioassay guided fractionation using the microplate resazurin assay (MRA) to assess inhibitory activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Ra. The antimycobacterial constituents were identified by NMR, MS and polarimetry. Results: Two C17 polyacetylenes with significant antimycobacterial activity were isolated from the Aralia nudicaulis rhizome extract. The polyacetylenes were identified as (3R)-falcarinol and (3R, 9R, 10S)-panaxydol. Falcarinol and panaxydol displayed MICs of 25.6 mu M and 36.0 mu M and IC(50)s of 15.3 mu M and 23.5 mu M against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra. Conclusions: Falcarinol and panaxydol were identified as the principal constituents responsible for the antimycobacterial activity of Aralia nudicaulis rhizomes validating an ethnopharmacological use of this plant by the Canadian First Nations. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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