Platelet Activating Factor(PAF) Antagonists Contained in Medicinal Plants: Lignans and Sesquiterpenes.

1 January 1992

journal article
Published by Pharmaceutical Society of Japan in CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN

Vol. 40 (5) , 1196-1198
https://doi.org/10.1248/cpb.40.1196

Abstract

Hot aqueous extracts of medicinal plants were tested for their inhibitory effect on the binding of platelet activating factor (PAF) to rabbit platelets. The extracts of Forsythia suspensa VAHL. (Oleaceae), Arctium lappa L. (Compositae) and Centipeda minima (L.) A. BRAUN et ASCHERS (Compositae) showed significant activities. Since the main constituents of F. suspensa and A. lappa are lignans, 30 lignans were tested for their inhibitory effects on PAF binding to platelets and 9 lignans were found active. Four sesquiterpenes were isolated as active compounds from C. minima. In particular 6-O-angeloylplenolin and 6-O-senecioyplenolin are the most potent and specific PAF antagonists found in this study.

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