Look S A, Fenical W, Jacobs R S, Clardy J
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1986 Sep;83(17):6238-40. doi: 10.1073/pnas.83.17.6238.
The Caribbean sea whip Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae (Octocorallia, Cnidaria) has been found to contain the pseudopterosins, a newly described class of natural products, which have been characterized as diterpene-pentoseglycosides. The pseudopterosins possess anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties that exceed, in our assays, the potencies of existing drugs such as indomethacin. As anti-inflammatory agents, the pseudopterosins appear to modify the arachidonic acid cascade by an as yet undefined mechanism of pharmacological action.
加勒比海鞭珊瑚(Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae,八放珊瑚亚纲,刺胞动物门)被发现含有假蕨素,这是一类新描述的天然产物,其特征为二萜-戊糖糖苷。在我们的试验中,假蕨素具有的抗炎和镇痛特性超过了现有药物如消炎痛的效力。作为抗炎剂,假蕨素似乎通过一种尚未明确的药理作用机制来改变花生四烯酸级联反应。