Efeito gastroprotetor da baicaleína na mucosa gástrica de camundongos

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Ana Roseli Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/3964
• topic: Fisiologia; Ulceras gástricas; Flavonóides; Antioxidantes; Baicaleína; Gastroproteção; Gastric ulcer; Gastroprotection; Flavonoids; Baicalein; CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::FISIOLOGIA

Gastric ulcer is a disease characterized by bleeding, stenosis and perforations of the gastric mucosa that can lead the patient to death. Many flavonoids have been shown to be promising for the treatment of these gastric lesions. Baicalein, a flavonoid present in Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi root (Lamiaceae), a medicinal plant widely used by Chinese medicine to treat peptic ulcers, has pharmacological properties, such as anti-inflammatory, antinociceptive, anticancer, antioxidant and antimicrobial. However, the effect of baicalein on gastric mucosa has not yet been reported. The objective of this study was to evaluate the protective and antisecretory properties of baicalein on the gastric mucosa of mice. The ethanol/HCl-induced ulcer model (60% ethanol/0.3 M HCl) was used to evaluate the protective effect of baicalein (10, 30 and 100 mg/kg) on the gastric mucosa. The participation of α2-adrenoreceptors, nonprotein sulfhydryl compounds (NP-SH), nitric oxide (NO), prostaglandin (PG), ATP-sensitive K+ channels in the gastroprotective effect of baicalein (30 mg/kg), levels of glutathione (GSH) and myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity in gastric tissue were also evaluated through the acidified ethanol induced ulcer model. The antisecretory effect of gastric acid of baicalein (10-100 mg/kg) was evaluated through the pylorus ligation model, in which the parameters of gastric secretion (volume, [H+] and pH) were evaluated in the presence or absence of the secretagogue agent histamine and mucus in the gastric contents. The in vitro activity of H+, K+-ATPase (proton pump) was also determined. Baicalein (10-100 mg/kg) presented a dose-dependent gastroprotective effect (p <0.001) against gastric lesions induced by acidified ethanol. Pretreatment by the intraperitoneal route with an α2 -adrenoreceptor antagonist (yohimbine, 2 mg/kg), a non-protein sulfide compounds blocker (N-ethylmaleimide, NEM, 10 mg/kg), a nonselective inhibitor of the NO synthase (Nw-nitro-L-arginine, L-NAME, 10 mg/kg), a nonselective cyclooxygenase inhibitor (indomethacin, 10 mg/kg) or an ATP-dependent potassium channel blocker (glibenclamide, 10 mg/kg) inhibited the gastroprotective response caused by baicalein (30 mg/kg) (p<0.001). Baicalein (30 mg/kg, p<0.05) was able to increase GSH levels and decrease MPO activity in stomach tissue exposed to the deleterious effect of acidified ethanol. Treatment with baicalein (30 and 100 mg/kg) significantly increased (p<0.05) gastric mucus secretion. In addition, treatment with baicalein reduced the volume of secretion and total acid secretion (30 and 100 mg/kg, p<0.05) and also increased (10, 30 and 100 mg/kg, p<0.001) the value of pH. Baicalein (30 mg/kg) was also effective to inhibi the effects of histamine on gastric secretion (volume, [H+] and pH, p<0.001). Baicalein 10 and 30 μg/mL demonstrated anti-H+, K+-ATPase activity. The present results provide convincing evidence that baicalein can be used as a cytoprotective agent (preventive effect) and anti-ulcer (antisecretory effect) in gastric ulcers treatment.