Atividade antiinflamatória, toxicidade e fitoquímica do óleo-resina de copaíba, proveniente de diferentes espécies, e de suas respectivas frações (OU) Atividade antiinflamatória, toxicidade e aspectos químicos do óleo-resina de Copaíba, proveniente de diferentes espécies, e de suas frações / Anti-inflamatory activity, toxicity and chemical composition of Copaifera oils, from different species, and theirs fractions

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

01/06/2001

RESUMO

Species of the genus Copaifera (Leguminosae) are native of tropical regions in Latin America and Africa. In Brazil, its oil-resin is widely utilized in popular medicine as anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and cicatrizing medicine. In the present work, we initially evaluated the acute anti-inflammatory activity of the following samples: commercial, Copaifera reticulata, C. multijuga and C. paupera. All the samples were administered by oral route. This initial pharmacological evaluation revealed that the C. reticulata was clearly more effective. In the second part of this work, the C. reticulata and the commercial samples, kindly provided by Pronatus-Manaus, were investigated. The oil-resins of the selected samples were analyzed by gas chromatography connected with mass spectrometry, revealing the presence of sesquiterpens and diterpens. Twenty two compounds in the commercial sample and twenty six in the C. reticulata were identified. Then after, the oil-resins were distilled and separated in their respective sesqui and diterpens fractions. Both oil-resins and their fractions were pharmacologically evaluated. The pharmacological evaluations were: acute, sub-chronic and chronic anti-inflammatory activities and acute, sub-chronic toxicities and cito-toxicities assays. The anti-inflammatory activity was studied in five experimental models: carrageenan, nistatin and miconazole paw oedema; induction of granulomatous tissue formation and croton oil dermatitis. The administered doses by oral route were 2.47 ml/kg (EQ50 for carrageenan model) to commercial sample and its sesqui and diterpens fractions, and 2.02 ml/kg to C. reticulata sample and its sesqui and diterpens fractions. All the assays carried out with the selected samples showed intense anti-flogistic activity, except for C. reticulata that exhibited high toxicity in the granulomatous tissue model. In the acute toxicity studies, C. reticulata (LD50 = 4.48 ml/kg) revealed greater toxicity in comparison with the commercial sample (LD50 >12.35 ml/kg). Its sesquiterpens fractions were less toxic that its correspondent oil-resins with LD50 higher than 9.14 and 20 m1/kg, for C. reticulata and commercial sample, respectively. On the other hand, resin fraction (diterpenic) presented high toxicity with LD50 higher than 2.85 and 1.29 ml/kg for commercial and C. reticulata samples, respectively. The sub-chronic assays, confirmed the less toxicity for the C. reticulta sesquiterpenic fraction. The C. reticulata oil-resin presented renal toxicity and hepatics alterations.

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anti-inflamatory antiinflamatório copaifera copaifera diterpenes diterpenos edema de pata farmacognosia fármacos de origem vegetal paw edema pharmacognosy sesquiterpenes sesquiterpenos toxicidade toxicity

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