Roy Saptarshi, Kundu Suman, Lyndem Larisha M.
Pharmaceutical biology, 2016
Abstract
Context Plants and plant products have been used in traditional medicine as anthelmintic agents in human and veterinary medicine. Three species of Senna plant, S. alata (L), S. alexandrina (M) and S. occidentalis (L.) Link (Fabaceae) have been shown to have a vermicidal/vermifugal effect on a zoonotic tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta (Rudolphi) (Cyclophyllidean).
Objective
The present study validates the mode of action of these Senna plants on the parasite. The alcoholic leaf extract was determined to obtain information on the intracellular free calcium concentration level.
Materials and Methods
Hymenolepis diminuta was maintained in Sprague-Dawley rat model for 2 months. Live parasites collected from infected rat intestine were exposed to 40 mg/mL concentration of each plant extracts prepared in phosphate buffer saline at 37 °C, till parasite gets paralyzed. The rate of efflux of calcium from the parasite tissue to the medium and the level of intracellular Ca(2+ )concentration were determined by an atomic absorption spectroscopy.
Results
This study revealed that exposure of the worms to the plant extract leads to disruption in intracellular calcium homeostasis. A significant increase (44.6% and 25%) of efflux in Ca(2+ )from the tissue to the incubated medium was observed. Senna alata showed high rate of efflux (5.32 mg/g) followed by S. alexandria and S. occidentalis (both 4.6 mg/g) compared with control (3.68 mg/g). Discussion and
Conclusion
These results suggest that leaf extracts caused membrane permeability to Ca(2+ ) after vacuolization of the tegument under stress and the extracts may contain compound that can be used as a chemotherapeutic agent.
Keywords
Anthelmintic; calcium; efflux; helminth; paralysis; parasite; tegument; vacuolization
| PMID: | 26878612 |
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| Category: | General properties of Senna Alexandrina |
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