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C Konno

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PubMed1983

Anabolic principles of Aconitum roots.

The methanol extracts of raw and processed roots of Aconitum carmichaeli were shown to stimulate amino acid incorporation into mouse liver protein after approx. 10 h of ingestion. The extract of the raw roots was fractionated by monitoring the anabolic activity to furnish the aconitine alkaloids as active principles, among which mesaconitine exhibited the strongest activity. Amino acid incorporation into liver protein in the mesaconitine treated mice was inhibited by actinomycin D to the level of normal mice. Long-term administration of mesaconitine induced no reinforcement of the anabolic activity in mouse liver. Examination of the anabolic activity in liver, spleen, kidney, testis and serum revealed that mesaconitine potentiated protein synthesis only in liver and rather reduced it in kidney.

Aconitine↗
PubMed1982

Mechanism of inhibitory action of mesaconitine in acute inflammations.

Mesaconitine (MA) inhibited carrageenin-induced hind-paw edema in sham-operated mice as well as adrenalectomized mice. Hind-paw edema produced by subplantar injection of histamine, serotonin and prostaglandin E1 was suppressed by MA, indicating that it elicits the antiinflammatory activity at the early exudative stage of inflammations. However, MA did not affect the biosynthesis of the prostaglandins. Trazoline and propranolol had no effect on the inhibitory activity of MA on carrageenin-induced hind-paw edema. MA when administered i.c. at the doses where it shows marked analgesic activity produced dose-dependent antiinflammatory responses on paw edema produced by carrageenin and on vascular permeability accelerated by acetic acid and agar. The inhibitory activity of morphine on carrageenin-induced paw edema failed to be potentiated by the concurrent administration of MA, demonstrating that the mechanism of the antiinflammatory activity of MA involves the central nervous system.

Aconitine↗
PubMed1982

Liver-protective actions of desoxypodophyllotoxin and its analogs.

Effects on CCl(4)-induced liver lesion in mice and on D-galactosamine-induced liver lesion in rats of desoxypodophyllotoxin (1) and its analogs, podophyllotoxin (2), podophyllotoxon (3), beta-peltatin (4), alpha-peltatin (5), 4'-demethylpodophyllotoxin (6) and picropodophyllin (7), were investigated. 1 and 7 in CCl(4)-induced liver lesion and 1,4,5, and 6 in D-galactosamine-induced liver lesion have shown marked protective actions. These results suggest that these analogs have liver-protective actions in general and the substituents at C-4 in ring C, C-5 in ring B and C-4' in ring E, and the configuration at C-2 in ring C are important for the revelation of the activity.

Alanine Transaminase↗
PubMed1980

Antiinflammatory principles of Aconitum roots.

The methanol extracts of Aconitum roots have shown inhibition of increased vascular permeability induced by acetic acid and of hind paw edema produced by carrageenin in mice. The extract of A. carmichaeli has been fractionated, monitored by the capillary permeability test, to yield the aconitines as active principles. The aconitines have inhibited the increased vascular permeability induced by acetic acid in mice peritoneal cavity and that induced by histamine in rat intradermal sites, and the hind paw edema formation induced by carrageenin n rats and mice at low doses. The benzoylaconines have exhibited inhibitory effects of the aforementioned acute inflammations but at higher doses. The aconitines have reduced the granulation tissue formation of the chorio-allantoic membrane of the chick embryo. On the other hand, the Aconitum alkaloids have elicited no effects on the ultraviolet erythema formation in guinea pigs at lower doses than the lethal ones and failed to show positive responses on the vascular permeability in the granuloma pouch and on adjuvant arthritis in rats at the doses employed.

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