Therapeutic potentials of Adenostemma lavenia (L.) O.Kuntze evidenced into an array of pharmacological effects and ligand-receptor interactions

Nahid Akhter; Munsur Alam; Md Ruhul Amin Khan; Sanjida Sharmin; Nazim Uddin Emon; Md Abu Bakar Siddique; Kazi Helal Hossain; Md Atiar Rahman

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15541

Therapeutic potentials of Adenostemma lavenia (L.) O.Kuntze evidenced into an array of pharmacological effects and ligand-receptor interactions

Heliyon. 2023 Apr 15;9(4):e15541. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15541. eCollection 2023 Apr.

Authors

Nahid Akhter¹, Munsur Alam², Md Ruhul Amin Khan², Sanjida Sharmin¹, Nazim Uddin Emon¹, Md Abu Bakar Siddique³, Kazi Helal Hossain⁴, Md Atiar Rahman^{5

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science and Engineering, International Islamic University Chittagong, Chattogram 4318, Bangladesh.
² School of Health and Life Sciences, Department of Pharmaceutical Science, North South University, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh.
³ Institute of National Analytical Research and Service (INARS), Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhanmondi, Dhaka 1205, Bangladesh.
⁴ Department of Neuroscience, Lerner Research Institute, 9620 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
⁵ School of Allied Health Sciences, Walailak University, Nakhon Si Thammarat, 80160, Thailand.
⁶ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh.

Abstract

This study constructed the phytochemical profiles of Adenostemma lavenia (L) methanol extract (MEAL) and investigated its anti-nociceptive, anti-diarrheal, antipyretic, thrombolytic and anthelmintic effects. The GC-MS characterized MEAL had undergone an in vivo antipyretic effect assayed on Swiss albino mice adopting the yeast-induced pyrexia model, antinociceptive activity tested following acetic acid-induced writhing and formalin-induced licking paw models, anti-diarrheal effect in castor oil-induced diarrhea, castor oil-induced enteropooling, and charcoal-induced intestinal transit tests, in vitro thrombolytic effect using clot-lysis model and anthelmintic effects assayed on Tubifex tubifex nematode. The MEAL biometabolites and associated proteins of target diseases were interacted with computational analysis. The MEAL showed a significant dose-dependent percentage of inhibition in acetic acid-induced writhing and formalin-induced paw licking displaying inhibition of 80.40% in acetic acid-induced writhing and 36.23% and 58.21% in the second phase of the formalin-induced model. The MEAL inhibition of 34.37%, 35.29%, and 42.95% in castor oil-induced diarrhea, castor oil-induced enteropooling, and charcoal-induced gastrointestinal motility, respectively. The MEAL significantly reduced yeast-induced pyrexia. Its biometabolites showed remarkable (-4.1 kcal/mol to 7.4 kcal/mol) binding affinity with the protein receptors. Caryophyllene and Cyclobarbital yielded the best binding scores in this research. Results suggest that pure compounds-based pharmacological investigations are necessary to affirm the therapeutic effects.

Keywords: Adenostemma lavenia; Anthelmintic; Caryophyllene; Cyclobarbital.