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ARCHIVES OF PHARMACAL RESEARCH
Volume 35, Issue 10, Pages 1763-1770Publisher
PHARMACEUTICAL SOC KOREA
DOI: 10.1007/s12272-012-1008-8
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Rheum undulatum; Stilbenes; Anti-inflammatory agents; Lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1); Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1); Cell adhesion molecules
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- Technology Development Program for Agriculture and Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
- KRIBB Research Initiative Program, Republic of Korea
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Six stilbenes were isolated from the methanol extract of Rheum undulatum rhizomes by bioactivity-guided fractionation. The structures of the compounds were determined by spectroscopic analysis (H-1-, C-13-NMR and MS), to be desoxyrhapontigenin (1), rhapontigenin (2), trans-resveratrol (3), piceatannol (4), piceatannol-3'-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (5) and isorhapontin (6). Compounds 1-4 inhibited the direct binding between sICAM-1 and LFA-1 of the THP-1 cells in a dose-dependent manner with IC50 values of 50.1, 25.4, 33.4 and 45.9 mu M, respectively. On the other hand, the other compounds 5 and 6 with a glucose moiety in each molecule did not show any inhibitory activity in the cell adhesion assay (IC50 values of > 100.0 mu M). Compounds 2, 3 and 4 also had an inhibitory effect on direct binding between sVCAM-1 and VLA-4 of THP-1 cells. This suggests that the stilbenes from Rheum undulatum rhizomes are good candidates for therapeutic strategies towards inflammation.
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