First report of the in vitro antileishmanial properties of extremophile plants from the Algarve Coast

Marta Oliveira; Maria João Rodrigues; Catarina Pereira; Rubens Lima do Monte Neto; Policarpo Ademar Santos Junior; Nuno da Rosa Neng; José Manuel Florêncio Nogueira; João Varela; Luísa Barreira; Luísa Custódio

doi:10.1080/14786419.2017.1326489

First report of the in vitro antileishmanial properties of extremophile plants from the Algarve Coast

Marta Oliveira, Maria João Rodrigues, Catarina Pereira, Rubens Lima do Monte Neto, Policarpo Ademar Santos Junior, Nuno da Rosa Neng, José Manuel Florêncio Nogueira, João Varela, Luísa Barreira, Luísa Custódio

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Abstract

This work reports for the first time the in vitro anti Leishmania infantum activity of acetone and dichloromethane (DCM) extracts from 25 extremophile plants from Southern Portugal. DCM extracts from Inula chritmoides and Spergularia rubra were active against axenic promastigotes and intracellular amastigotes, had anti-inflammatory properties on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated macrophages, inhibited acetylcholinesterase and had no haemolytic activity on human erythrocytes. Eleven phenolics were identified by high-performance liquid chromatography with diode-array detection (HPLC-DAD) in I. crithmoides and one phenolic in S. rubra. Isolation and identification of the active molecules is in progress.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	600-604
Number of pages	5
Journal	Natural Product Research
Volume	32
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2017.1326489
Publication status	Published - 4 Mar 2018
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Antiparasitic
Inula chritmoides
Leishmania infantum
Spergularia rubra
halophytes
neglected tropical diseases
visceral leishmaniasis

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First report of the in vitro antileishmanial properties of extremophile plants from the Algarve Coast

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