Faixová D, Hrčková G, Mačák Kubašková T, Mudroňová D
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice, Komenského 73, 040 01 Košice, Slovak Republic.
Institute of Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Hlinkova 3, 040 01 Košice, Slovak Republic.
Helminthologia. 2021 Feb 10;58(1):1-16. doi: 10.2478/helm-2021-0004. eCollection 2021 Mar.
Medicinal plants have been successfully used in the ethno medicine for a wide range of diseases since ancient times. The research on natural products has allowed the discovery of biologically relevant compounds inspired by plant secondary metabolites, what contributed to the development of many chemotherapeutic drugs. Flavonoids represent a group of therapeutically very effective plant secondary metabolites and selected molecules were shown to exert also antiparasitic activity. This work summarizes the recent knowledge generated within past three decades about potential parasitocidal activities of several flavonoids with different chemical structures, particularly on medically important flatworms such as spp., spp., spp., spp., and model cestode . Here we focus on curcumin, genistein, quercetin and silymarin complex of flavonolignans. All of them possess a whole spectrum of biological activities on eukaryotic cells which have multi-therapeutic effects in various diseases. they can induce profound alterations in the tegumental architecture and its functions as well as their activity can significantly modulate or damage worm´s metabolism directly by interaction with enzymes or signaling molecules in dose-dependent manner. Moreover, they seem to differentially regulate the RNA activity in numbers of worm´s genes. This review suggests that examined flavonoids and their derivates are promising molecules for antiparasitic drug research. Due to lack of toxicity, isoflavons could be used directly for therapy, or as adjuvant therapy for diseases caused by medically important cestodes and trematodes.
自古以来,药用植物就在民族医学中成功用于治疗多种疾病。对天然产物的研究使人们发现了受植物次生代谢产物启发的具有生物学相关性的化合物,这推动了许多化疗药物的开发。黄酮类化合物是一类治疗效果非常显著的植物次生代谢产物,已证实某些分子具有抗寄生虫活性。本文总结了过去三十年中有关几种具有不同化学结构的黄酮类化合物潜在杀寄生虫活性的最新知识,特别是对医学上重要的扁形虫,如某些属、某些属、某些属、某些属,以及模式绦虫。在这里,我们重点关注姜黄素、染料木黄酮、槲皮素和水飞蓟宾复合物(黄酮木脂素类)。它们在真核细胞上都具有一系列生物活性,在各种疾病中具有多种治疗作用。它们可以引起皮层结构及其功能的深刻变化,并且其活性可以通过与酶或信号分子相互作用以剂量依赖的方式直接显著调节或损害蠕虫的代谢。此外,它们似乎能以不同方式调节蠕虫许多基因中的RNA活性。这篇综述表明,所研究的黄酮类化合物及其衍生物是抗寄生虫药物研究中有前景的分子。由于异黄酮没有毒性,可以直接用于治疗,或作为由医学上重要的绦虫和吸虫引起的疾病的辅助治疗。