Conocliniopsis prasiifolia (DC) R.M. King & H. Robinson is a species used in popular medicine with anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities, it belongs to the Asteraceae family and is known as "mentrasto-roxo". Studies of the ethanol extract from its leaves (EECp) showed a low toxicity throughout oral and intraperitoneal routes, and anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects in animal models. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of EECp in the neutrophils degranulation for better characterization of its anti-inflammatory effect. Peritoneal neutrophils from rats and spectrophotometric techniques were used. The results showed that the EECp (25 and 50 µg/mL) was able to inhibit significantly (p<0.05) the neutrophils degranulation induced from fMLP. We can conclude that the EECp prevents the release of granules of the neutrophils that contains degrading enzymes, demonstrating anti-inflammatory activity.
Conocliniopsis prasiifolia; Asteraceae; Anti-inflammatory activity; Neutrophils degranulation; Flavonoid
