کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2497247 1116193 2011 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Pharmacological mechanism responsible for the Atractylodes japonica-induced distal colonic contraction in rats
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی بیوشیمی بالینی
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Pharmacological mechanism responsible for the Atractylodes japonica-induced distal colonic contraction in rats
چکیده انگلیسی

Background and aimAtractylodes japonica Koidz (Compositae) has been commonly used to treat the gastrointestinal (GI) disorders in Korean traditional medicine, but its pharmacological roles in the regulation of GI motility have not been clarified yet.MethodsAtractylodes japonica was sequentially partitioned with MeOH, n-hexane, CHCl3, EtOAc and n-BuOH saturated with H2O, and the effects of Atractylodes japonica extracts on the spontaneous contractility of GI muscle strips prepared from rats were measured.ResultsAmong five different fractionations, EtOAc extracts of Atractylodes japonica (AJEA) dose-dependently increased the low frequency contraction of distal colon longitudinal muscles (DCLM), and the ED50 values were revealed to be 1.71 × 10−9 g/ml. Among GI tracts, a prominent contractile response to AJEA was observed only in the DCLM. The contractile patterns produced by AJEA remarkably differed from those caused by acetylcholine and 5-HT. 4-DAMP and methoctramine at 0.5 μM significantly blocked the AJEA (1.0 μg/ml)-induced contraction of DCLM, but ondansetron, GR113808 and methysergide at 1.0 μM in combination did not change the AJEA-induced DCLM contractions. Acetylethylcholine mustard (5.0 μM) significantly diminished the AJEA-induced DCLM contractions, whereas p-chlorophenyl alanine (1.0 μM) did not affect the stimulatory effects of AJEA on the DCLM contractions.ConclusionThe present results suggest that AJEA may specifically act on the DCLM among GI smooth muscles, and AJEA-induced DCLM contraction is likely mediated, at least, by activation of ChAT and acetylcholinergic muscarinic receptors.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Phytomedicine - Volume 18, Issue 5, 15 March 2011, Pages 408–413
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