期刊
SAUDI PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL
卷 26, 期 3, 页码 437-444出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsps.2017.12.017
关键词
Cannabinoid receptors; Molecular modelling; Opioid receptors; Pinus roxburghii; Pinaceae; Secondary metabolites
资金
- Egyptian Government
- National Center for Natural Product Research, University of Mississippi
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences [P20GM104932]
- USDA Agricultural Research Service [58-6408-1-603]
Pinus roxburghii is highly popular as a potent analgesic and anti-inflammatory agent; however its exact mechanism of action was not fully elucidated. We aimed to interpret the analgesic and anti-inflammatory activity of the total ethanol extract of Pinus roxburghii bark (PRE) and its isolated compounds by both in silico molecular modelling and in-vitro cannabinoid and opioid binding activities evaluation for the first time. Comprehensive phytochemical investigation of PRE resulted in the isolation of sixteen compounds that were fully elucidated using H-1 NMR and C-13 NMR. Four of which namely 1,3,7-trihydroxyxanthone (1), 2,4,7-trihydroxyxanthone (2), isopimaric acid (9) and 3-methoxy-14-serraten-21-one (10) were first to be isolated from PRE. In silico molecular modelling was done using Accelry's discovery studio 2.5 on the cannabinoid receptor (CB1) and the different opioid receptors (mu, kappa and delta). Results showed that the different isolated constituents exhibited variable degrees of binding with the different examined receptors that undoubtedly explained the observed analgesic and anti-inflammatory activity of PRE. Thus in vitro evaluation of cannabinoid (CB1, CB2) and opioid (mu, kappa, delta) binding activities for the isolated compounds was done. PRE and ursolic acid (11) showed a good CB1 receptor binding activity with 66.8 and 48.1% binding, respectively. Isopimaric acid (9) showed good CB2 and mu receptors binding activity estimated by 58.1 and 29.1% binding, respectively. Meanwhile, querectin-3-O-rhamnoside (7) exhibited a moderate kappa-opioid receptor activity showing 56.0% binding. Thus, PRE could offer a natural analgesic and anti-inflammatory candidate through the synergistic action of all its components. (C) 2017 The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
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