Avaliação do potencial genotóxico e antigenotóxico da fração aquosa e do isolado pedunculagina da semente de Myrciaria cauliflora (Mart) O. Berg em sistemas in vivo

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Rangel Moreira
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6817
• topic: Elagitaninos; Teste do micronúcleo; Ensaio cometa; Ciclofosfamida e efeito antigenotóxico; Ellagitannins; Micronucleus test; Comet assay; Cyclophosphamide and antigenotxic; BOTANICA::FISIOLOGIA VEGETAL

Myrciaria cauliflora (Mart), commonly known as “Jabuticaba” (Brazilian Grape) occurs in all of South America, especially in Brazil. This species presents medicinal properties and it is popularly used to treat diarrhea and respiratory diseases. It has already been proven several biological activities such as antioxidant, antimutagenic and anti-proliferative. The phytochemical analysis of M. cauliflora detected the presence of several compounds, including the ellagitannin pedunculagin. Due to the widespread use of this species for therapeutic and food purposes, this study aimed to evaluate the genotoxic, antigenotoxic, cytotoxic and anticytotoxic actions of the aqueous fraction (AF) and pedunculagin from M. cauliflora seed, by micronucleus (MN) test and the comet assay in mice bone marrow cells. In order to analyze AF and pedunculagin activities prior to CP’s toxic effects, the animals were co-, pre- and post-treated with these substances. The results showed that AF at 24 h treatment did not show genotoxic or cytotoxic effects in the MN test and comet assay. However, AF showed cytotoxic action, but did not show genotoxic effect at 120 h treatment in the MN test. In the comet assay it was able to significantly reduce the frequency of DNA breaks when compared to the negative control. In the evaluation of the antigenotoxic and anticytotoxic effects, it was observed that in all treatments, in both assays, AF and pedunculagin showed antigenotoxic and anticytotoxic activities, but in the post-treatment pedunculagin increased the cytotoxic effect of CP. In general, our results indicated that AF and pedunculagin were able to protect the mice bone marrow cells against DNA damage induced by CP in the MN test and comet assay. These findings indicated that AF and pedunculagin could be probable candidates for the development of new drugs.