TY - JOUR
T1 - In vitro evaluation of the amebicidal activity of Buddleia cordata (Loganiaceae, H.B.K.) on several strains of Acanthamoeba
AU - Rodríguez-Zaragoza, Salvador
AU - Ordaz, Cinthya
AU - Avila, Guillermo
AU - Luis Muñoz, José
AU - Arciniegas, Amira
AU - Romo De Vivar, Alfonso
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico de la UNAM through the grant number IN 204794.
PY - 1999/9
Y1 - 1999/9
N2 - Infectious diseases produced by free-living amoebae from the genus Acanthamoeba have been recently recognized. The need for antiamebic compounds is urgent as the occurrence of these diseases is being registered more frequently since the late sixties. We screened the aqueous and methanolic extract of a plant used by folk medicine (Buddleia cordata) against eye and skin inflammation for antiamebic activity. We tested the extracts on 29 strains of free-living amoebae, with the result that they were amebostatic for 14 and 15 strains, respectively. We obtained linarin and vanillic acid from the extracts, but only linarin was amebostatic to all the strains and vanillic acid had no activity. However, acetyl vanillic acid had similar effects on amoebae to linarin. Threshold values of these two active compounds ranged from 31.25 μg/ml to 4 mg/ml and from 31.25 μg/ml to 8 mg/ml for linarin and acetyl vanillic acid, respectively. These differences in threshold values were observed even on several strains belonging to the same species (as in the case of A. castellanii and A. polyphaga) indicating the need of susceptibility testing for each clinical isolate of free-living amoebae. Copyright (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
AB - Infectious diseases produced by free-living amoebae from the genus Acanthamoeba have been recently recognized. The need for antiamebic compounds is urgent as the occurrence of these diseases is being registered more frequently since the late sixties. We screened the aqueous and methanolic extract of a plant used by folk medicine (Buddleia cordata) against eye and skin inflammation for antiamebic activity. We tested the extracts on 29 strains of free-living amoebae, with the result that they were amebostatic for 14 and 15 strains, respectively. We obtained linarin and vanillic acid from the extracts, but only linarin was amebostatic to all the strains and vanillic acid had no activity. However, acetyl vanillic acid had similar effects on amoebae to linarin. Threshold values of these two active compounds ranged from 31.25 μg/ml to 4 mg/ml and from 31.25 μg/ml to 8 mg/ml for linarin and acetyl vanillic acid, respectively. These differences in threshold values were observed even on several strains belonging to the same species (as in the case of A. castellanii and A. polyphaga) indicating the need of susceptibility testing for each clinical isolate of free-living amoebae. Copyright (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
KW - Acanthamoeba
KW - Antiamebic compounds
KW - Buddleia
KW - Free-living amoebae
KW - Susceptibility test
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U2 - 10.1016/S0378-8741(98)00186-X
DO - 10.1016/S0378-8741(98)00186-X
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0378-8741
VL - 66
SP - 327
EP - 334
JO - Journal of Ethnopharmacology
JF - Journal of Ethnopharmacology
IS - 3
ER -