TY - JOUR
T1 - Spasmolytic effect of aqueous extract of Tagetes erecta L. flowers is mediated through calcium channel blockade on the guinea-pig ileum
AU - Ventura-Martínez, Rosa
AU - Ángeles-López, Guadalupe E.
AU - Rodríguez, Rodolfo
AU - González-Trujano, Ma Eva
AU - Déciga-Campos, Myrna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Masson SAS
PY - 2018/7
Y1 - 2018/7
N2 - This study provides pharmacological evidence on the spasmolytic activity of Tagetes erecta L. (marigold or cempasúchil) on the guinea-pig ileum and presents data on its mechanism of action. The relaxant effect on KCl contractions was more marked with aqueous (AqEx) than with ethanol extracts (EtEx) of T. erecta flowers (55.6 ± 11.0 vs 21.1 ± 4.4%, respectively). In addition, the aqueous extract antagonized contractions elicited by EFS, but not by acetylcholine (73.5 ± 1.9 vs 14.5 ± 5.3%, respectively). These effects were not diminished by hexamethonium or L-NAME, but this extract caused a rightward shift in the Ca2+ concentration-response curves like that of verapamil. Quercetin and rutin, two flavonoids present in this plant, also showed spasmolytic effects (95.7 ± 2.8 and 27.9 ± 7.1%, respectively). Interestingly, in tissues without spasmogens, the extract induced contractions superimposed on their spontaneous activity. These results support the traditional use of T. erecta as a spasmolytic in folk medicine and suggest mainly that quercetin could be partly responsible for this effect. The spasmolytic effect appears to involve voltage-gated calcium channels, but not the nitric oxide pathway or the release of neurotransmitters from enteric neurons. Nevertheless, this plant could produce colic or stomachache as adverse effects in clinical situations in which these symptoms are not originally present.
AB - This study provides pharmacological evidence on the spasmolytic activity of Tagetes erecta L. (marigold or cempasúchil) on the guinea-pig ileum and presents data on its mechanism of action. The relaxant effect on KCl contractions was more marked with aqueous (AqEx) than with ethanol extracts (EtEx) of T. erecta flowers (55.6 ± 11.0 vs 21.1 ± 4.4%, respectively). In addition, the aqueous extract antagonized contractions elicited by EFS, but not by acetylcholine (73.5 ± 1.9 vs 14.5 ± 5.3%, respectively). These effects were not diminished by hexamethonium or L-NAME, but this extract caused a rightward shift in the Ca2+ concentration-response curves like that of verapamil. Quercetin and rutin, two flavonoids present in this plant, also showed spasmolytic effects (95.7 ± 2.8 and 27.9 ± 7.1%, respectively). Interestingly, in tissues without spasmogens, the extract induced contractions superimposed on their spontaneous activity. These results support the traditional use of T. erecta as a spasmolytic in folk medicine and suggest mainly that quercetin could be partly responsible for this effect. The spasmolytic effect appears to involve voltage-gated calcium channels, but not the nitric oxide pathway or the release of neurotransmitters from enteric neurons. Nevertheless, this plant could produce colic or stomachache as adverse effects in clinical situations in which these symptoms are not originally present.
KW - Aqueous extract (AqEx)
KW - Calcium channels
KW - Guinea-Pig ileum
KW - Spasmogenic effect
KW - Spasmolytic activity
KW - Tagetes erecta (T. erecta)
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U2 - 10.1016/j.biopha.2018.04.166
DO - 10.1016/j.biopha.2018.04.166
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 29864942
SN - 0753-3322
VL - 103
SP - 1552
EP - 1556
JO - Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy
JF - Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy
ER -