Platonia insignis Mart. is a vegetable of the Clusiaceae Lindl., family that popularly known as “bacuri” in Brazil. It widely used folk medicine to treat human diarrheas and inflammatory diseases. has antiparasitic activity, antioxidant, anticarcinogenic action, addition vasorelaxant potential. The present study investigates leishmanicidal, cytotoxic genotoxic activities different biological sy...

The effects of human adrenomedullin-(13-52) [hADM-(13-52)] were investigated in the rat pulmonary vascular bed and in isolated rings from the rat pulmonary artery (PA). Under conditions of controlled blood flow and constant left atrial pressure when tone was increased with U-46619, injections of hADM-(13-52) produced dose-related decreases in lobar arterial pressure. Pulmonary vasodilator respo...

We have previously demonstrated that pulmonary vasodilation in response to isoproterenol is attenuated in conscious dogs after left lung autotransplantation (LLA). Our present goal was to identify the cellular mechanism responsible for this dysfunction. Size- and position-matched pulmonary arterial rings were isolated from the right (control) and left (LLA) lungs of 23 dogs 1-14 mo post-LLA. Th...

BACKGROUND Hypertension is one of the most important risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and a worldwide problem. Despite increases in the development of synthetic drugs for hypertension treatment, the rate of untreated and uncontrolled hypertension remains high. These drugs are effective, but can also cause side effects. Approximately 80% of the world population uses herbal medicines...

Hypertension is one of the most common cardiovascular diseases, leading to the development of stroke, coronary heart disease, cardiac failure or renal insufficiency [1]. Consequently, much work is ongoing with the aim of developing novel and more efficacious antihypertensive drugs. Drugs which increase vascular relaxation through different mechanisms are a major focus of such work. Many studies...

A series of novel imperatorin derivatives were synthesized from commercially available xanthotoxin. The in vitro pharmacological evaluation indicated that all of the compounds possessed potent vasodilatory activity. Among them, compounds (5b), (5d) and (5e) exhibited higher vasdilatory activity (with EC(50) values of 0.68 µM, 0.59 µM and 0.49 µM, respectively) than imperatorin (EC(50) = 1.12 µM...

A series of 6-halo-3-hydroxyphenylcoumarins (resveratrol-coumarins hybrid derivatives) was synthesized in good yields by a Perkin reaction followed by hydrolysis. The new compounds were evaluated for their vasorelaxant activity in intact rat aorta rings pre-contracted with phenylephrine (PE), as well as for their inhibitory effects on platelet aggregation induced by thrombin in washed human pla...

(+/-)-(E)-4-Ethyl-2-[(E)-hydroxyimino]-5-nitro-3-hexenamide (FK409) shows both potent in vitro vasorelaxant and antiplatelet activities via nitric oxide (NO) generated spontaneously from the compound. In this study, we measured spontaneous NO-releasing rates of a series of FK409 derivatives, of which chain lengths or substituents were systematically modified, in sodium-phosphate buffer solution...