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Published on: June 18, 2012
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Yonglian Li1,2, Yingfan Cao3, Vincent Kam Wai Wong4
1Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006 China.
Abstract:
Essential oils (EOs), derived from medicinal plants, has been reported to possess various bioactivities to treat inflammatory diseases. Therefore, it is urgent to investigate the effect and the mechanism of EOs essential oils as naturally anti-inflammatory agents. The present study indicated thirty-one EOs had different inhibition on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced nitric oxide (NO) production. Moreover, the most potent EOs against NO production in BV2 cells were chuan-xiong, schizonepeta tenuifolia, lemongrass and zedoary turmeric with IC50 values of 12.59, 23.12, 22.76 and 21.88 μg/mL, respectively. The further studies revealed that ligustilide, tributyl citrate and longifolene, the main constituents of chuan-xiong EO, schizonepeta tenuifolia EO and zedoary turmeric EO, were responsible for their activities against NO production with IC50 values of 8.75, 6.05 and 20.32 μg/mL. Above all, theses EOs were confirmed to be promising anti-inflammatory agents.
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