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Chemical and anti-ulcer evaluation of Jodina rhombifolia (Hook. & Arn.) Reissek extracts

Estudo químico e da atividade antiúlcera de Jodina rhombifolia (Hook. & Arn.) Reissek

Abstracts

Jodina rhombifolia (Hook. & Arn.) Reissek (Santalaceae) is a medicinal plant popularly used as an anti-ulcer medicine. The plant native from Southern Brazil was chemically investigated and tested for its in vivo gastric anti-ulcer property by chloride acid/ethanol model. The chromatographic analysis of the hydroethanol extract of its leaves revealed the presence of C-glycosylflavonoids. From the n-butanol fraction of the hydroethanol extract of its aerial parts, vicenin-2 was isolated as the main component and identified by spectroscopic methods; and, a direct comparison with authentic samples was made. This fraction afforded three other C-glycosylflavonoids: vitexin, orientin and swertisin; all of them identified by direct comparison with authentic samples. We found that the oral administration of aqueous and hydroethanolic extracts led to a significant decrease in the ulcer index.

Jodina rhombifolia; Santalaceae; anti-ulcer; C-glycosylflavonoids; vicenin-2


Jodina rhombifolia (Hook. & Arn.) Reissek (Santalaceae) é uma espécie vegetal nativa do Sul do Brasil e usada externamente na medicina popular para o tratamento de úlcera na pele. Neste trabalho foi estudada a atividade antiúlcera gástrica em ratos usando como indutor ácido clorídrico/etanol. Os extratos hidroetanólico e aquoso apresentaram atividade antiúlcera no modelo utilizado. A análise cromatográfica do extrato hidroetanólico das folhas indicou a presença de C-glicosilflavonóides. Da fração n-butanólica obtida por extração seqüencial do extrato hidroetanólico foi isolada e identificada por métodos espectroscópicos a vicenina-2 como substância majoritária. Desta fração também foram identificados por CCD bidimensional, com auxílio de substâncias de referência, outros três C-glicosídeos: vitexina, orientina e swertisina.

Jodina rhombifolia; Santalaceae; antiúlcera; C-glicosilflavonóides; vicenina-2


ARTIGO

Chemical and anti-ulcer evaluation of Jodina rhombifolia (Hook. & Arn.) Reissek extracts

Estudo químico e da atividade antiúlcera de Jodina rhombifolia (Hook. & Arn.) Reissek

Jarbas A. MontanhaI,* * E-mail: jarbas.montanha@farmacia.ufrgs.br, Tel. +55-51-3308-5451 ; Eloir P. SchenkelII; Alexandre T. Cardoso-TaketaIII; Ana P. DreschI; Augusto LangelohIV; Eliane DallegraveIV

IDepartamento de Produção de Matéria-Prima,, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga 2752, 90610-000 Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil

IIDepartamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Universitário Trindade, 88040-900 Florianópolis-SC, Brazil

IIICentro de Investigación en Biotecnología, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Avenida Universidad 1001, Col. Chamilpa, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, México

IVDepartamento de Farmacologia, Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Sarmento Leite 500, 90040-060, Porto Alegre-RS, Brasil

ABSTRACT

Jodina rhombifolia (Hook. & Arn.) Reissek (Santalaceae) is a medicinal plant popularly used as an anti-ulcer medicine. The plant native from Southern Brazil was chemically investigated and tested for its in vivo gastric anti-ulcer property by chloride acid/ethanol model. The chromatographic analysis of the hydroethanol extract of its leaves revealed the presence of C-glycosylflavonoids. From the n-butanol fraction of the hydroethanol extract of its aerial parts, vicenin-2 was isolated as the main component and identified by spectroscopic methods; and, a direct comparison with authentic samples was made. This fraction afforded three other C-glycosylflavonoids: vitexin, orientin and swertisin; all of them identified by direct comparison with authentic samples. We found that the oral administration of aqueous and hydroethanolic extracts led to a significant decrease in the ulcer index.

Keywords:Jodina rhombifolia, Santalaceae, anti-ulcer, C-glycosylflavonoids, vicenin-2.

RESUMO

Jodina rhombifolia (Hook. & Arn.) Reissek (Santalaceae) é uma espécie vegetal nativa do Sul do Brasil e usada externamente na medicina popular para o tratamento de úlcera na pele. Neste trabalho foi estudada a atividade antiúlcera gástrica em ratos usando como indutor ácido clorídrico/etanol. Os extratos hidroetanólico e aquoso apresentaram atividade antiúlcera no modelo utilizado. A análise cromatográfica do extrato hidroetanólico das folhas indicou a presença de C-glicosilflavonóides. Da fração n-butanólica obtida por extração seqüencial do extrato hidroetanólico foi isolada e identificada por métodos espectroscópicos a vicenina-2 como substância majoritária. Desta fração também foram identificados por CCD bidimensional, com auxílio de substâncias de referência, outros três C-glicosídeos: vitexina, orientina e swertisina.

Unitermos:Jodina rhombifolia, Santalaceae, antiúlcera, C-glicosilflavonóides, vicenina-2.

INTRODUCTION

Jodina rhombifolia Hook. & Arn, (Santalaceae) is a plant native to Argentina, Bolivia, Southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, known as "cancorosa-de-três-pontas", "erva-cancorosa", "espinheira-de-três pontas" or only "cancorosa" (D'Avila, 1910; Simões et al., 1998). Its aerial parts are employed in folk medicine, mainly for the treatment of digestive problems and, externally to heal skin ulcers and other skin diseases as rash, carcinoma or nasal polyps (D'Avila, 1910; Corrêa, 1969; Simões et al., 1998). Notwithstanding the wide utilization in different regions of South America, chemical and pharmacological studies of Jodina rhombifolia are rather scarce (Biavatti et al., 2007).

In the present study, we describe the investigation of the anti-ulcer activity of aqueous and hydroalcoholic extracts obtained from the aerial parts of Jodina rhombifolia, together with the chemical analysis of these polar extracts.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

Plant material and extraction

The aerial parts of Jodina rhombifolia Hook. & Arn. Reissek were collected in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. The voucher specimen is in a deposit in the Herbarium of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (ICN/UFRGS) (number 87566). The air-dried and powdered plant material was extracted with EtOH/H2O (60:40) (drug/solvent ratio = 1:10 w/v) by maceration. The aqueous extract was prepared with dried plant material by infusion (drug/solvent ratio = 1:10 w/v) with hot distilled water. The extracts were evaporated to dryness under reduced pressure.

General procedure

UV data were recorded on a UV-Vis-2201 Recording Spectophotometer Shimadzu. 1H (500 MHz) and 13C (125.7 MHz) NMR spectra (DEPT, 1H-1H COSY, HMBC and HMQC) were recorded on a Bruker AVANCE AMX 500 spectrometer equipped with a 5 mm multinuclear inverse probehead with z-shielded gradient. MeOD was used as solvent. TLC was performed on precoated aluminium sheets (Silica gel GF254 0.25 mm, Merck, Germany) with detection provided by UV light (254 and 365 nm) and by spraying with Natural Product Reagent A (Roth). Sephadex LH-20 (Pharmacia) and Avicel microcrystalline cellulose were used in the compound isolation.

Isolation of compounds

The hydroethanol extract was concentrated and the resulting phase was successively extracted with petrol ether, ethyl acetate and n-butanol. The n-butanol fraction (2.5 g) was chromatographed on a 120 g microcrystalline cellulose column using acetic acid:water (10:90 and 15:85 v/v) to yield compound 1 (150 mg) as the main component that was cleaned over repeated chromatography on a Sephadex LH-20 column using methanol as a mobile phase, resulting in 100 mg of pure compound 1. Compound 1 was also analyzed by UV, 1H NMR and 13C NMR spectroscopy. Other three compounds were identified by two dimensional TLC on silica gel (ethyl acetate: formic acid: acetic acid:methyl ethyl ketone:water, 50:7:3:30:10 and n-butanol:acetic acid:water, 40:10:50. upper phase) and compared with authentic samples using vitexin, isovitexin, vicenin, vicenin-2, swertisin, isoswertisin, spinosin, orientin and isoorientin as reference substances.

HCl / ethanol-induced gastric lesions

The HCl / ethanol-induced gastric lesions modified model (Yesilada et al., 1997) was used by verified anti-ulcer activity of the hydroethanol and aqueous extracts of aerial parts of Jodina rhombifolia.

Female Wistar rats weighing between 200-250 g were fasted for 24h with water ad libitum before ulcer induction. The estral cycle phase of the rats was evaluated by vaginal cytology and only females in diestrus phase were examined. The animals were housed in a ventilated room, at a temperature of 22 ± 2 °C, under a 12 h light (9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.)/12h dark cycle. The assay was carried out between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. The study was approved by the Committee for Ethics in Animal Research of our University (protocol nº 200254) and all experiments were carried out in accordance with the norms of the Brazilian College of Animal Experimentation.

All treatments were administered orally in a volume of 10 mL/kg. The animals were randomized into six groups of eight animals each. Group I, serving as control, received distilled water while animals of group II ranitidine (100 mg/kg). The dried aqueous extract in doses of 250 and 750 mg/kg was administered to groups III and IV, respectively. The animals of groups V and VI received 250 and 750 mg/kg of hydroethanol extract, respectively. Thirty minutes later, ulceration was induced by administration of a 0.3 M solution of HCl in 60% (v/v) ethanol (1 mL/kg). After one hour, the animals were killed by decapitation, the stomachs removed and opened along the greater curvature. All stomachs were washed with a NaCl 0.9% solution (10 ml/stomach). The number of rats with ulcers and the length of each lesion were determined using a stereo microscope. The scores according with the size of the ulcers, adapted from Williamson et al. (1996), are the following: None ulcer (score 0); Ulcers < 2 mm (score 1); One ulcer > 2 mm and < 5 mm (score 2); More than one > 2 mm and < 5 mm (score 3); One ulcer > 5 mm and < 8 mm (score 4); More than one > 5 mm and < 8 mm (score 5); One ulcer > 8 and < 10 mm (score 6); More than one > 8 and < 10 mm (score 7); One ulcer > 10 mm (score 8); More than one > 10 mm (score 9) and several gastric ulcers recovered all gastric regions (score 10).

Statistical analysis

Results are expressed as median ± quartis (25 and 75). Differences among ulcer score were determined by Mann Whitney test. The number of animals with gastric ulcer incidences among the groups was determined by chi-square test.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

The anti-ulcer activity of aqueous and hydroethanol extract of aerial parts from Jodina rhombifolia on HCl/ethanol-induced gastric lesions in rat was evaluated and shows that 100% of the animals pre-treated with water, ranitidine (100 mg/kg) and the aqueous extract (250 or 750 mg/kg) presented gastric lesions after the inductor agent administration.The pre-treatment with hydroethanol extract at 250 and 750 mg/kg presented a significant reduction (P < 0.05: chi-square) of 75% and 62.5% in number of animals with gastric ulcers induced by HCl/ethanol.

Therefore the hydroethanol extract inhibit the ulcer formation in 25.0 and 37.5% of the rats treated with 250 or 750 mg/kg, respectively. The ulcer score presented in Figure 2 shows that all treatments (ranitidine, aqueous and hydroethanol extracts) were able to significantly reduce the ulcer score (P < 0.05: Kruskal Wallis). Ranitidine and both extracts (aqueous and hydroethanol at 250 and 750 mg/kg) showed significant difference from the control group (P < 0.05: Mann Whitney) and both Jodina rhombifolia extracts presented similar ranitidine activity.



The chromatographic analysis of these active aqueous and hydroethanol extracts of the aerial parts revealed the predominance of compounds with typical behavior of flavonoids (fluorescence before and after sprying with Natural Product Reagent A); terpenoids and saponins were not detected by using the appropriate methodology usually employed in our laboratory (Taketa et al., 2004). After the fractionation of the hydroethanol extract by solvent extraction, the butanol fraction obtained was chromatographed with a silica gel column aiming the isolation and identification of compound 1 which was predominate. The UV spectrum data of compound 1 suggested the presence of a 5,7-dihydroxy derivative without orto hydroxyl groups, considering shifts induced by NaOAc, NaOAc/H3BO3, AlCl3 and AlCl3/HCl. The 13C NMR clearly indicated the presence of a C-glycoside derivative with two sugars. Detailed comparison with literature data for C-glycosylflavonoid (Lu & Foo, 2000) allowed the identification of compound 1 as vicenin-2 (Figure 1). The signals of methods 1H and 13C NMR were full assigned and the assignments are according to those described by Lu & Foo (2000) for vicenin-2. Further, three other C-glycosylflavonoids in the n-butanol fraction were identified as vitexin (compound 2), orientin (compound 3) and swertisin (compound 4) by direct comparison with authentic samples using two-dimensional TLC (Figure 1).

Considering the predominance of the C-glycosylflavonoid in the evaluated extract, the demonstrated anti-ulcer activity is probably related to the presence of these compounds.

The anti-ulcer cytoprotective effect have been described in animal experiments to some flavonoids as quercetin, amentoflavone and 3-methoxy 5,7,3',4'-tetrahydroxyflavan (Borowski, 1983; Gambhir et al., 1987; Havsteen, 1983). Coffigny et al. (2000) has demonstrated the anti-ulcer activity of the 2''-O-ramnosil 4''-O-metilvitexin of Pipper ossanum on gastric lesions induced by immobilization.

We concluded that the aqueous and hydroalcoholic extractsof Jodina rhombifolia present C-glycosylflavonoids as main components and demonstrate anti-ulcer properties by HCl/ethanol-induced protocol in Wistar rats. Further investigations are on going to determine the mechanism of anti-ulcer activity and the evaluations of the isolated glycosides in this model.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Ana P. Dresch is indebted FAPERGS for the fellowship.

Received 26 June 2008

Accepted 14 December 2008

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    E-mail:
    jarbas.montanha@farmacia.ufrgs.br, Tel. +55-51-3308-5451
  • Publication Dates

    • Publication in this collection
      11 Aug 2009
    • Date of issue
      Mar 2009

    History

    • Accepted
      14 Dec 2008
    • Received
      26 June 2008
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