Chemometrics integrated with in silico pharmacology to reveal antioxidative and anti-inflammatory markers of dandelion for its quality control

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BACKGROUND: Dandelion is an herb with high nutritional and medicinal values, which has been listed in Chinese Pharmacopeia, European Pharmacopoeia and British Pharmacopoeia, gaining increasing acceptance around the world. However, the current quality control of dandelion is lagging behind. Only in Chinese Pharmacopeia, cichoric acid is used as a marker compound for its quality evaluation, whereas, it can not comprehensively reflect the bioactivity of dandelion.

METHODS: This study developed a strategy by integrating chemometrics with in silico pharmacology to reveal the bioactive markers of dandelion for its quality control. Firstly, the major chemicals in dandelion were characterized using HPLC-DAD-MS/MS, and the corresponding antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities were evaluated in vitro. Subsequently, the active components were screened by relating the chemicals and bioactivity of dandelion via grey relational assay and partial least squares regression analysis. The potential active components were then subjected to a validation for their activities. Moreover, in silico pharmacology was utilized to evaluate the contribution of active components to efficacy.

RESULTS: A total of 22 phenolic compounds were characterized. Among them, cichoric acid, caffeic acid and luteolin were identified as quality markers owing to their good correlations with the bioactivities of dandelion. These three markers were quantified in frequently-used dandelion species, viz. Taraxacum mongolicum Hand.-Mazz. (TAM) and T. officinale F. H. Wigg. (TAO). TAM, with acceptably higher content of cichoric acid and caffeic acid, showed better antioxidant activity than TAO. While TAO included higher content of luteolin, presenting slightly more effective in anti-inflammation.

CONCLUSION: An useful strategy for the quality marker discovery was successfully designed. And the results provided more knowledge for the quality evaluation of dandelion.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

Chinese medicine - 17(2022), 1 vom: 04. Nov., Seite 125

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liu, Feng-Jie [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Jiao [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xu-Yan [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Ting [VerfasserIn]
Ni, Hui [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Liang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Ping [VerfasserIn]
Li, Hui-Jun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-inflammatory
Antioxidant
Chemometrics
Dandelion
In silico pharmacology
Journal Article
Quality control

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Date Revised 08.11.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s13020-022-00679-4

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM348475950