Affiliation:
1. Laboratório de Farmacologia e Imunidade (LaFI), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 57072-970 Maceió, AL, Brazil
2. Laboratório de Pesquisa em Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil
3. Laboratório de Plantas Tropicais (LPT), PPG-Dibict, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil
Abstract
This study investigates the leishmanicidal activity of five species of plants used in folk medicine in endemic areas of the state of Alagoas, Brazil. Data were collected in the cities of Colonia Leopoldina, Novo Lino, and União dos Palmares, Alagoas state, from patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis (Leishmania amazonensis) who use medicinal plants to treat this disease. Plants extracts were tested at a concentration of 1–100 μg/mL in all experiments, except in an assay to evaluate activity against amastigotes, when 10 μg/mL was used. All plants extracts did not show deleterious activity to the host cell evidenced by LDH assay at 100, 10, and 1 μg/mL after 48 h of incubation. The plants extractsHyptis pectinata(L.) Poit,Aloe veraL.,Ruta graveolensL.,Pfaffia glomerata(Spreng.) Pedersen, andChenopodium ambrosioidesL. exhibited direct activity against extracellular forms at 100 μg/mL; these extracts inhibited growth by 81.9%, 82.9%, 74.4%, 88.7%, and 87.4%, respectively, when compared with promastigotes. The plants extractsH. pectinata, A. vera,andR. graveolensalso significantly diminished the number of amastigotes at 10 μg/mL, inhibiting growth by 85.0%, 40.4%, 94.2%, and 97.4%, respectively, when compared with control. Based on these data, we conclude that the five plants exhibited considerable leishmanicidal activity.
Funder
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Subject
Complementary and alternative medicine
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