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- Title
Diversity of Pharmacological Properties in Chinese and European Medicinal Plants: Cytotoxicity, Antiviral and Antitrypanosomal Screening of 82 Herbal Drugs.
- Authors
Herrmann, Florian; Romero, Marta R.; Blazquez, Alba G.; Kaufmann, Dorothea; Ashour, Mohamed L.; Kahl, Stefan; Marin, Jose J. G.; Efferth, Thomas; Wink, Michael
- Abstract
In an extensive screening, the antiviral, antitrypanosomal and anticancer properties of extracts from 82 plants used in traditional Chinese medicine and European phytomedicine were determined. Several promising plants that were highly effective against hepatitis B virus (HBV), bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV)-a flavivirus used here as a surrogate in vitro model of hepatitis C virus, trypanosomes (Trypanosoma brucei brucei) and several cancer cell lines were identified. Six aqueous extracts from Celosia cristata, Ophioglossum vulgatum, Houttuynia cordata, Selaginella tamariscina, Alpinia galanga and Alpinia oxyphylla showed significant antiviral effects against BVDV without toxic effects on host embryonic bovine trachea (EBTr) cells, while Evodia lepta, Hedyotis diffusa and Glycyrrhiza spp. demonstrated promising activities against the HBV without toxic effects on host human hepatoblastoma cells transfected with HBV-DNA (HepG2 2.2.15) cells. Seven organic extracts from Alpinia oxyphylla, Coptis chinensis, Kadsura longipedunculata, Arctium lappa, Panax ginseng, Panax notoginseng and Saposhnikovia divaricata inhibited T. b. brucei. Moreover, among fifteen water extracts that combined high antiproliferative activity (IC50 0.5-20 μg/mL) and low acute in vitro toxicity (0-10% reduction in cell viability at IC50), Coptis chinensis presented the best beneficial characteristics. In conclusion, traditional herbal medicine from Europe and China still has a potential for new therapeutic targets and therapeutic applications.
- Subjects
EUROPE; CHINA; MEDICINAL plants; ANTIVIRAL agents; PHARMACOLOGY; CHINESE medicine; HEPATITIS B virus; HERBAL medicine
- Publication
Diversity (14242818), 2011, Vol 3, Issue 4, p547
- ISSN
1424-2818
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.3390/d3040547