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1. In vivo treatment with the herbal phenylethanoid acteoside ameliorates intestinal inflammation in dextran sulphate sodium-induced colitis

Author

D. H. Paper, Juergen Schoelmerich, Florian Obermeier, Nadja Dunger, K. Menzel, Werner Falk, Gerhard Rogler, Martin Hausmann, K. Balan, and Hans H Herfarth

Subjects
Necrosis, Colon, medicine.medical_treatment, Immunology, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Inflammatory bowel disease, Antioxidants, Mice, Glucosides, Phenols, Weight Loss, medicine, Animals, Immunology and Allergy, Mesenteric lymph nodes, Intestinal Mucosa, Colitis, Acute colitis, Peroxidase, Respiratory Burst, Mice, Inbred BALB C, business.industry, Macrophages, Dextran Sulfate, Interleukin, medicine.disease, Respiratory burst, Cytokine, medicine.anatomical_structure, Acute Disease, Chronic Disease, Animal Studies, Cytokines, Female, Lymph Nodes, Inflammation Mediators, medicine.symptom, business
Abstract

Summary Recently we demonstrated that in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) macrophage-oxidative burst activity is increased and NADPH oxidase mRNA is induced. The herbal phenylethanoid acteoside isolated from Plantago lanceolata L. was shown to exhibit anti-oxidative potential. Using the dextran sulphate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis model, in this study we have assessed whether systemic application of acteoside affects colitis. Colitis was induced by DSS in Balb/c mice. Treatment with acteoside (120, 600 µg/mouse/day) was performed intraperitoneally. The colon lengths were determined. Colonic tissue was scored histologically (max. score 8) by a blinded investigator. T cells isolated from mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN) were stimulated with anti-CD3 antibody in the presence of interleukin (IL)-2 (final concentration 10 U/ml). After incubation for 24 h, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-12 tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α and interferon (IFN)-γ levels in supernatants were analysed by the beadlyte® cytokine detection system. Histological scoring of colonic tissue revealed that application of acteoside was followed by a significantly improved histological score. In acute colitis the histological score was 3·2 with acteoside versus 5·2 with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) (P

Published
2007

2. Structurally related immunological effects of triterpenoid saponins

Author

M, Bernhardt, C, Sturm, K H, Shaker, D H, Paper, G, Franz, and K, Seifert

Subjects
Immunity, Cellular, Plants, Medicinal, Macrophages, Tetrazolium Salts, In Vitro Techniques, Saponins, Lymphocyte Activation, Triterpenes, Cell Line, Mice, Structure-Activity Relationship, Thiazoles, Phagocytosis, Mice, Inbred DBA, Animals, Female, Cell Division, Cells, Cultured, Spleen
Abstract

The influence of the triterpenoid saponins 1-10 has been investigated on murine spleenocytes in the lymphocyte transformation test and on murine macrophages in an phagocytosis assay. The lymphocyte transformation test and the phagocytosis assay showed that the tested compounds have no stimulating effect. However, a significant inhibition of lymphocyte proliferation by the triterpenoid saponins 2, 6 and 10 was demonstrated.

Published
2001

3. [Polysaccharides from Nerium oleander: structure and biological activity]

Author

B M, Müller, F, Rosskopf, D H, Paper, J, Kraus, and G, Franz

Subjects
Male, Mice, Inbred C3H, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Plants, Medicinal, Cell Survival, Plant Extracts, Hydrolysis, Macrophages, In Vitro Techniques, Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic, Methylation, Mice, Structure-Activity Relationship, Phagocytosis, Polysaccharides, Tumor Cells, Cultured, Animals, Immunologic Factors, Female, Protease Inhibitors, Lymphocytes, Mitogens, Limulus Test
Abstract

A water extraction of crushed leaves of Nerium oleander yielded 2.3% of a crude polysaccharide. The main fraction (67%) represents a pectic polysaccharide mainly composed of galacturonic acid besides rhamnose, arabinose and galactose. The polysaccharide structure was characterized by NMR, mild acid- and pectinase treatment combined with GC-MS analyses. In vivo tests for a possible antitumor activity did not result in a significant action. Investigation of immunomodulating activity brought some indications for mitogenic activity and a weak macrophage-mediated cytotoxicity. Increase of phagocytosis could not be doubtlessly assigned to the polysaccharide due to the high amount of endotoxin in the homogenous fraction OLE 2.

Published
1991