Avaliation of the vitro and in vivo antimalarial activity of violacein extrated from Chromobacteriuim violaceum / Avaliação in vivo e in vitro da atividade anti-plasmodial da violaceina extraida da Chromobacterium violaceum

AUTOR(ES)

Stefanie Costa Pinto Lopes

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Violacein is a violet pigment extracted from the bacteria Gram-negative Chromobacterium violaceum. Growing bodies of evidences have implicated violacein as an antimicrobial, antifungal, antitumoral, and a moderate trypanocidal and leishmanial activity has also been observed. Herein, we evaluated the anti-malarial activity of violacein against murine and human-derived Plasmodium. Indeed, violacein showed to be efficient in killing P. falciparum (3D7 strain) as much as quinine, but 3 fold less pronounced than chloroquine. Moreover, this anti-Plasmodial activity detected was direct against both young and mature stages of this human parasite. In vivo experiments in P. c. chabaudi AS (PcchAS) infected mice treated during 10 consecutive days after infection (0-10) revealed a powerful activity of this drug, by inhibiting parasite burden up to 86%. Also, 60% of inhibition was noticed when violacein was administrated 5 days after infection establishment. When administrated in mice infected with a lethal strain of murine-derived Plasmodium (PcchAJ) violacein protected 80% of these mice, in contrast to 100% of mortality reported to the non-treated animals. ED50 comparisons demonstrated that violacein was efficient as much as artesunate and twice more active than chloroquine. Finally, naïve mice inject with violacein during 10 consecutive days did not display alterations on red blood cell density; weight and neither morphological damages were noticed in spleen and liver histological sections. Collectively, these data clearly demonstrated the anti-malarial effect of violacein and open perspectives to understating the mechanisms involved in killing this parasite by this compound

ASSUNTO(S)

malaria violaceina violacein chromobacterium violaceum antimalarials antimalaricos

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